Am Freitag, 27. Oktober 2006 14:13 schrieb Ph. Marek:
> > is that it's still not possible write a single pattern which matches
> > the file "tmp" in the top-level directory and any subdirectory...

> Currently we substitute "**" to ".*".

> That's a special-case -- because /**/ is a special case of possibly
> (near-) 0-byte length ...
> Is that correct?

Sounds plausible and should work.

Another idea would be to introduce another prefix for globbing patterns...

I'm not sure which aapproach would be best, but I think I like 
the '**/' -> '(.*/)?' idea better.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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