[ruby-core:87124] [Ruby trunk Bug#14765] Arguments passed to Open3.popen3() are not interpreted as wildcards

Issue #14765 has been updated by Rushyanth (Rushyanth reddy).


Suppose I have a variable 
``` x = "abc"```
I need to cat a file ```abc.yml```  I write

``` Open3.popen3("cat #{x}.yml")```  --------------------- (1)

This will lead to Command Injection warning. 
So we need to pass the arguments seperately like 

``` Open3.popen3("cat",  x+".yml")```     ------------------- (2)

The second type will not lead to command Injection warning and both cases 1 and 2 work fine

But If I need to retrieve data of many files not just a single file.

Then I need to write

``` Open3.popen3("cat *.yml")```     -------- (1)

or

``` Open3.popen3("cat",  "*.yml")```  ------  (2)

The 1st case works fine but the second case fails .

Because in second case  ```popen3``` is interpreting its second argument ```*.yml``` as a file name .

But ```*``` should actually be interpreted as regular expression character where it retrieves all the file names ending in ```.yml```


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Bug #14765: Arguments passed to Open3.popen3() are not interpreted as wildcards
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14765#change-72109

* Author: Rushyanth (Rushyanth reddy)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.3.1
* Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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In console when we write

```ruby
stdin, stdout, stderr, wait_thr = Open3.popen4("cat .*.yml")
stdout.readlines
```

All the files with names starting with `.` and ending in `.yml` are shown
But when we do

```ruby
stdin, stdout, stderr, wait_thr = Open3.popen4("cat", ".*.yml")
stdout.readlines
```

It returns an empty array
`stderr.readlines` says  `["cat: .*.yml: No such file or directory\n"]`
Because it is interpreting the string arguments as it is and looking for a file with name `.*.yml` and not interpreting as in the first case.



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