RE: Globbing and EAs



On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 09:42 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:55, Bosshard Raphael, bosshrap wrote:
> > Globbing is the process of expanding wildcard patterns.
> > /home/tom* --> /home/tomas, /home/tomtom, /home/tomi 
> > /home/*el --> /home/daniel, /home/michael
> > 
> > It's provided through glob.h but since I want to use gnome-vfs for portability I was wondering if a similar feature is going to be included in gnome-vfs.
> 
> There is no such plans. globbing is basically a string operation, and
> doesn't fit into gnome-vfs as such.

From an outsiders point of view I think maybe the globbing spoken of
above relates to getting a virtual directory containing matching
results. Which if EA was indexable could allow much more than just doing
pcre(3) expressions manually on the VFS.


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