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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2012-05-12 11:25:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2012-05-12 11:25:17 +0200 |
| commit | 5152a76ba011489dcf6b848e5b244319b6942a5f (patch) | |
| tree | 02a1c64769b8a691561cbfa57ab508a69c46985d /lib/system-quote.h | |
| parent | c25bdbae48977a527dff69150f59fb0746d31b51 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-5152a76ba011489dcf6b848e5b244319b6942a5f.tar.gz | |
sh-quote, system-quote: Add comments about wildcards.
* lib/sh-quote.h: Clarify what happens with wildcard characters.
* lib/system-quote.h: Likewise.
Reported by Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/system-quote.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/system-quote.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system-quote.h b/lib/system-quote.h index d5f29780b7..48d59efaa1 100644 --- a/lib/system-quote.h +++ b/lib/system-quote.h @@ -20,14 +20,16 @@ /* When passing a command the system's command interpreter, we must quote the program name and arguments, since - - Unix shells interpret characters like " ", "'", "<", ">", "$" etc. in a - special way, + - Unix shells interpret characters like " ", "'", "<", ">", "$", '*', '?' + etc. in a special way, - Windows CreateProcess() interprets characters like ' ', '\t', '\\', '"' etc. (but not '<' and '>') in a special way, - Windows cmd.exe also interprets characters like '<', '>', '&', '%', etc. in a special way. Note that it is impossible to pass arguments that contain newlines or carriage return characters to programs through - cmd.exe. */ + cmd.exe. + - Windows programs usually perform wildcard expansion when they receive + arguments that contain unquoted '*', '?' characters. */ #include <stddef.h> |