Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You would think that wild cards (fnmatch) are well known and that they work
> the same on all systems. Apparently not.
>
> On GNU clib systems,
>
> fnmatch("a*b/*", "abbb/.x", FNM_PATHNAME|FNM_PERIOD) returns fail
> (i.e. FN_NOMATCH).
>
> and on my version of the BSD fnmatch.c it returns success. I could have
> messed up the code in porting it into Bacula, but I consider that *highly*
> unlikely.
Well, Solaris 10 behaves the following way:
fnmatch("a*b/*", "abbb/.x", FNM_PATHNAME|FNM_PERIOD) -> FNM_NOMATCH
fnmatch("a*b/.*", "abbb/.x", FNM_PATHNAME|FNM_PERIOD) -> MATCH
as opposed to FreeBSD 5.4 which returns a match in both cases.
I think the Solaris/GNU way is the correct way, since with
FNM_PATHNAME|FNM_PERIOD "/." should only match an explicit "/."
in pattern.
Attila
> In reading the GNU documentation on fnmatch, it is not clear which is
> correct -- in fact, depending on nuances of precedences of the rules, which
> is not documented, both interpretations seem to be correct.
>
> Does anyone have any opinions? Am I missing something?
>
> I must admit: this is somewhat a tricky case. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Kern
>
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