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Rollup merge of #45830 - pornel:dosglobs, r=dtolnay

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Warn about lack of args glob expansion in Windows shell

Because all shells on Linux/macOS expand globs, and even MinGW on Windows emulates this behavior, it's easy to forget that Windows by itself doesn't support glob expansion. This PR documents this cross-platform difference.
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@ -671,6 +671,10 @@ pub struct ArgsOs { inner: sys::args::Args }
/// set to arbitrary text, and may not even exist. This means this property should
/// not be relied upon for security purposes.
///
/// On Unix systems shell usually expands unquoted arguments with glob patterns
/// (such as `*` and `?`). On Windows this is not done, and such arguments are
/// passed as-is.
///
/// # Panics
///
/// The returned iterator will panic during iteration if any argument to the