From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 4 23: 6:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36C737B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D24A43E75 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9566EpS079477; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:06:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dima Dorfman Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnmatch() in the kernel In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:40:51 -0000." <20021004224006.GA304@trit.org> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 08:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: <79476.1033797974@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021004224006.GA304@trit.org>, Dima Dorfman writes: >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? I think so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message