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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: kern/122838: [devfs] devfs doesn&#39; t handle complex paths (like
 zvol/pool/vms) good
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The following reply was made to PR kern/122838; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, amdmi3@amdmi3.ru,
        Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/122838: [devfs] devfs doesn&#39;t handle complex paths (like
 zvol/pool/vms) good
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:37:44 +0200

 Can't believe that we are still where we were more than two years ago...
 
 I think that we have to make this change even if it _might_ break some existing
 rulesets.
 
 Rationale:
 - current behavior is contrary to any documentation
 - current behavior is contrary to common sense
 - current behavior is very hard to describe and account for
 - I presume that very few people actually fully understand the current behavior
 - I presume that even fewer people made a conscious choice to depend or make use
 of its non-trivial features of the current behavior
 
 So, we should make the behavior of devfs pattern consistent with the
 documentation and the common sense.
 
 In addition to Jaakko's patch I propose that we pass FNM_PATHNAME to fnmatch(9),
 so that the matching is indeed consistent with glob(3) / shell glob-ing rules
 for filesystem paths.
 
 -- 
 Andriy Gapon