Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:43:40 -0500
From:	dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id:	<199603101343.IAA29218@delorie.com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960310083107.2390O-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 10 Mar 1996 08:45:10 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Library docs-questions

> 	1) `glob' doesn't use FA_HIDDEN and FA_SYSTEM in the attributes 
> of files it gets from `findfirst' and `findnext'.  If this is 
> intentional, I think it's wrong, because this way, an application can 
> never get a name of a hidden file from the command line (unless it is 
> given explicitly, i.e. without wildcard characters).  It also doesn't 
> return files in hidden/system directories (with foo/.../*bar*).  If 
> that's how it should be (I don't think so) then at least the `errfunc' 
> should be called, because we then have an unreadable directory.

This is intended, since globbing on unix doesn't return files
beginning with ".".

> 	2) `glob' returns GLOB_ERR when any of the calls to `malloc' 
> fails.  Shouldn't it return GLOB_NOSPACE instead?  Right now, 
> GLOB_NOSPACE is never returned (that's why the docs add-ons I've sent 
> don't describe it).  I thought GLOB_ERR should only be returned when 
> `errfunc' should be called (i.e. never under DOS).

Probably.

> 	3) SIGINT is defined by ANSI, but <signal.h> only defines it in 
> the non-ANSI section, which is wrong.

You're right.

> 	4) `system' ignores some commands that it considers `null' 
> commands.  Some of them indeed are (like ``rem''), but others aren't.  
> For instance, ``cd something'' and ``set'' without an argument should not 
> be ignored, I think.  Right now the code ignores both of these commands 
> with or without arguments.  Any particular reason for that?

Sounds like a "unix compatibility" to me.

> 	5) `system' also doesn't support ``>>'' redirection.  It's almost 
> trivial to add this support, I just want to know if there is any reason 
> that it wasn't included originally.

None that I can think of.

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