Subject: Re: bug#16884: 24.3.50; desktop-read should not die on non-existing directories

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:13:53 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:09:34 -0500
> 
> ls knows nothing of wildcards, that's the shell's business.

Not on Windows, where the wildcards are expanded by the application's
startup code.