Subject: Re: bug#27631: dired a/*/b

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:49:13 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:30:40 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked],
> 	積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> 
> The old code already used the shell to do the wildcard expansion, so why
> not just adjust the old code.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "used the shell to do the
wildcard expansion", but if you actually mean to let the shell do
that, it's unportable to non-Posix shells.