Re: strange argv quoting behaviour

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:07:33AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:59:35AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:12:40AM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
>  >  > % ./foo 'abc' *
>  >  > 4: (\a\b\c) (foo)
>  >  > 
>  >  > That last case suggests some aggressive overquoting - but it only 
> happens
>  >  > if there is a '*' as an argument afterwards!
>  >  > (Checked on a yesterday current box, csh)
>  > 
>  > csh is amply supplied with bugs and weirdness, so this behavior
>  > doesn't exactly surprise me; but FWIW I can't replicate it.
> 
> However, it's apparently caused by -r1.32 of glob.c in libc, which
> Christos just reverted, so it should stop happening.

Thank you!

P