From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Starnge rm behavour
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 07:06:16 GMT
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"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:

>The problem seems to be occurring because 'redir' doesn't perform
>wildcard expansion on the command line it gets passed, yet it uses
>spawnvp() to invoke the indicated program with the remaining arguments. 
>Obviously, this breaks any program which gets passed a wildcard,
>including 'rm'.

>I _think_ the problem can be solved by making redir call system()
>instead of spawnvp().  This would however require it to essentially
>rebuild the command line from its components.  It's not hard to do, but
>would make redir take up slightly more memory at runtime.

Isn't it easier to just let redir expand the wildcards?