Problem with wildcard from Windows

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/30/2009 01:20 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Bengt Larsson (Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:18:21 +0100)
>>>> Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware.
>>> Eh? The problem is that it doesn't glob when it should. The shell is
>>> standard CMD.EXE, ie Windows console.
>>
>> The shell (Cmd) does the globbing. Describe your problem in a Microsoft
>> newsgroup.
>
>    Hang on though, isn't there some code in the cygwin dll to do globbing for
> just this situation, when you want to launch a cygwin executable from a
> non-cygwin context?  Perhaps that code has a problem with multi-byte chars or
> something; this could be a cygwin bug, couldn't it?

Yep.  That's why I made my suggestion.  If that works, then it's a work-around
and a confirmation of a bug in Cygwin.  If it doesn't, then it suggests (to me)
some issue in 'ls'.

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