The following reply was made to PR kern/122838; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: Subject: Re: kern/122838: [devfs] devfs doesn't handle complex paths (like zvol/pool/vms) good Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:37:44 +0200 Can't believe that we are still where we were more than two years ago... I think that we have to make this change even if it _might_ break some existing rulesets. Rationale: - current behavior is contrary to any documentation - current behavior is contrary to common sense - current behavior is very hard to describe and account for - I presume that very few people actually fully understand the current behavior - I presume that even fewer people made a conscious choice to depend or make use of its non-trivial features of the current behavior So, we should make the behavior of devfs pattern consistent with the documentation and the common sense. In addition to Jaakko's patch I propose that we pass FNM_PATHNAME to fnmatch(9), so that the matching is indeed consistent with glob(3) / shell glob-ing rules for filesystem paths. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
