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From: sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Message-ID: <1512@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 22 Jan 91 01:12:09 GMT
References: <8148@hub.ucsb.edu> <11313@lanl.gov> <355@bria>
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In article <355@bria> mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik) writes:
}In article <11313@lanl.gov> lanl.gov!jlg (Jim Giles) writes:
}The "tool has to ask for the functionality" of globbing?  How does it do
}this, precisely?  Send email to shell, asking it nicely?  C'mon!  Globbing
}is a builtin function of the shell; wildcards are resolved BEFORE the
}shell even forks and executes the command.  So, tell us all, who are appraently
}so ignorant (nay, but mere intellectual pygmies on the broad shoulders of
}your intellect), how does the program ask for globbing after it has already
}been done, and the arguments are sitting in it's stack?

Well the shell could pass a copy of the unglobbed as well as globbed arg's to the
program. I'm not going to comment on the reasonableness of this whole thread, but
where theres a will theres a way :-)


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