Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:00:04 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnmatch() in the kernel Message-ID: <20021004160004.A2051@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20021004224006.GA304@trit.org>; from dima@trit.org on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:40:51PM %2B0000 References: <20021004224006.GA304@trit.org>
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:40:51PM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> The DEVFS rule subsystem has a need for glob-style pattern matching in
> the kernel (so you can specify a pattern to describe which devices you
> want your rule to match). To effect this, I would like to import
> fnmatch(3) into the kernel. Would libkern be a good place for it?
> Attached are the diff to libkern.h and the diff between the kernel
> fnmatch.c and the userland fnmatch.c. If anybody has objections to
> this or thinks it should go somewhere else, please speak up.
This will also be useful for ipfw2 post if_xname.
> On a procedural note, should I ask for a repo-copy of
> lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c to sys/libkern/fnmatch.c, or is this not
> necessary in this case? (I think it is appropriate, but I don't
> recall ever seeing something like this done.)
That's what we did for strlc{at,py}.
-- Brooks
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