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199	Please change [ glob ] not to find hidden files or directories so that it won't fail for Emacs users	jasonspiro4@…	somebody	"When I do {{{[ glob *.cpp ]}}}, Boost.Build^1^ finds all *.cpp files.  Sadly, this includes Emacs lockfiles^2^.  Emacs stores these files in the same directory as my source files, but they are dotfiles (Unix hidden files) whose names start with dot-pound: {{{.#main.cpp}}} for example.

I do not want {{{glob}}} to find those files, and I assume that most programmers think likewise.^3^  Please change {{{glob}}} so that it does not find files or directories whose name starts with a dot.

Cheers, --Jason ({{{jasonspiro4}}}@{{{gmail.com}}})

^1^ The CMake software build system has the same problem.  I told CMake too:  http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=7487

^2^ http://tekman.livejournal.com/79598.html

^3^ I can only think of one case where programmers *do* need to think about dotfiles:  C and C++ programmers who use GNU Libtool, in the cases where they need to look inside the hidden directories that Libtool creates.  You can read more about these hidden directories at http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.40.1/makepp_scanning.html#libtool.  But I think it would be rare for anyone to use {{{glob}}} to try to find things inside Libtool hidden directories.  They probably only want a few libraries from inside there, not dozens of files like I assume most {{{glob}}} users would want.  So they are much more likely to specify the individual libraries they want by typing their full filenames."	enhancement	new	minor		component1	2.0			jasonspiro4@…