From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Feb 17 02:26:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21015 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:26:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21003 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04378; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:26:53 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id LAA13626; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:26:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980217112651.42326@follo.net> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:26:51 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-version FS References: <199802170911.JAA14813@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <199802171012.DAA09362@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199802171012.DAA09362@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:12:21AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:12:21AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > BSD should probably support a kernel globbing mechanism to avoid > wasteful dirent transfers. To do this would require modifications > to nearly any program that can take file arguments, and be real > tough to deal with. I want this. It should be coupled with a more generic argument parser, and have some way for shells to add hooks to do the globbing using their local policies (the same glob's mean different things in different shells). It would be a far step away from the way Unix has always done it, but it would be a step in the right direction. If we started off with just supporting this, not mandating it, we'd have done an architectural leap. However, I'm not certain it is feasible in terms of effort - just fixing the shells to use this method is likely to be a huge amount of work. Eivind, who's always been bugged by the way Unix shells handle globbing - you're NOT supposed to glob in "-rf" as a FLAG. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message