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Re: A few Windows build fixes
From: |
Hannu Koivisto |
Subject: |
Re: A few Windows build fixes |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:06:27 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Hannu Koivisto <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:33:04 +0300
>>
>> One problem is Cygwin dll's automatic globbing of command line
>> arguments (which is done when a non-Cygwin application runs a
>> Cygwin application) and that might be one thing that could be
>> handled if better integration is wanted.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand. On Posix platforms, globbing is something
> done by the shell, not by the application.
Right. And this is something some Emacs packages (such as the git
interface I was talking about) rely on.
> Since Cygwin emulates Posix, I would expect its applications not
> to glob on their own.
They don't when you run them from a Cygwin shell or any other
Cygwin application. They (well, not the applications as such but
the cygwin dll linked to them) do when you run them from a native
Windows application.
Apparently the idea is that a person using cmd.exe, for example,
can say "ls foo*" and have it work in an "expected" way.
Unfortunately this feature is not limited to cmd.exe (even though
some documentation suggests so).
> Are you saying that sometimes Cygwin applications do glob in
> their startup code, like native Windows apps? (That's what I
> understand from the URL you mentioned.)
Yes.
--
Hannu
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, (continued)
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/05
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Hannu Koivisto, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes,
Hannu Koivisto <=
Re: A few Windows build fixes, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/09/02
Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/01