External lib unittests: they're killin me!

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu May 23 10:12:53 PDT 2013


On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:59 -0400, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:

> On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 13:56:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> No I mean, I want to pass in all the files in a directory to a windows  
>> command line tool.  But the tool has to "opt in" to allow me to use  
>> wildcards.
>
> What if the tool handles argv[1] and exits? Or writes to argv[2] if any.

Then you can't pass it more than one parameter?  I don't get the point.

>> No, the shell expands wildcards, not the OS.
>
> It was just a sarcastic comment about incredible consistency of wildcard  
> expansion in linux.

Having the expansion of wildcards built into the OS would be bad.  I don't  
need to get into that.

-Steve


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