On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:18:40PM -0400, Bert wrote:
> >I must say I'm slightly dismayed
> >by the less-than-enthusiastic response I have received - I've
> >identified a problem, root-cause it and even offered to submit
> >a fix - what exactly is the problem?
>
> While I don't know about the ins-and-outs of globbing libraries (and,
> therefore, can't judge ease, etc)...
>
> The whole "it's rare [and an obscure (imo) work around exists] so let's not
> worry about it" is a reason to reject a feature, NOT a bug fix.
>
> As Alan already has done much and is prepared to do more of the work, I
> hope his patch is accepted.
>
>
> A voice of one (or half?),
> Bert
The only bug is that it doesn't report that you have
exceeded the capacity of the command-line argument globbing.
Extending the capacity of command-line argument globbing
would be an enhancement. There will always be a limit.
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