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| author | Guillaume Gomez <guillaume1.gomez@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 10:09:17 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-11-08 10:09:17 +0100 |
| commit | 6392a164f0ab0c2c5deb43d16cf3b5b71155a48c (patch) | |
| tree | f1135fa1e116df7ae5f1c11c336d89a2579ae452 /src/libstd | |
| parent | 1db95a2354ecca1c841446dca019c6c26a37bbcf (diff) | |
| parent | 53de42e3334a004f3ed5bbc33317c871158ca2a4 (diff) | |
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Rollup merge of #45830 - pornel:dosglobs, r=dtolnay
Warn about lack of args glob expansion in Windows shell Because all shells on Linux/macOS expand globs, and even MinGW on Windows emulates this behavior, it's easy to forget that Windows by itself doesn't support glob expansion. This PR documents this cross-platform difference.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/env.rs | 4 |
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diff --git a/src/libstd/env.rs b/src/libstd/env.rs index f81adad3ebe..457c6e1409d 100644 --- a/src/libstd/env.rs +++ b/src/libstd/env.rs @@ -671,6 +671,10 @@ pub struct ArgsOs { inner: sys::args::Args } /// set to arbitrary text, and may not even exist. This means this property should /// not be relied upon for security purposes. /// +/// On Unix systems shell usually expands unquoted arguments with glob patterns +/// (such as `*` and `?`). On Windows this is not done, and such arguments are +/// passed as-is. +/// /// # Panics /// /// The returned iterator will panic during iteration if any argument to the |