On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 15:48 +0000, Roger James wrote:
On 18/01/16 11:21, Thomas Haller wrote:On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 10:54 +0000, Roger James wrote:
Hi Roger,
Sorry about the confusion. The ? instead of the ~ in the first message was a typo. Produce the following statement in the man page entry:
Correct.
This implies that that interface-name:?on* should match for example mon0.
Yes, this should indeed match.
However the code fro the nm_match_spec_interface_name function in NetworkManagerUtils.c, only sets the match_pattern flag if it sees a ~ character as the first character of the interface name. This is at or around line 1322 of the source file.
»···»···»···spec_str += STRLEN (INTERFACE_NAME_TAG);
»···»···»···if (spec_str[0] == '=')
»···»···»···»···spec_str += 1;
»···»···»···else {
»···»···»···»···if (spec_str[0] == '~')
»···»···»···»···»···spec_str += 1;
»···»···»···»···use_pattern=TRUE;
»···»···»···}
it sets use_pattern=TRUE if the first character is not '='.
Seems correct to me.
I think that. <varlistentry> <term>interface-name:IFNAME</term> <listitem><para>Case sensitive match of interface name of the device. Ranges and escaping is not supported.</para></listitem> </varlistentry>
That would be conceivable, but that would be a different behavior. AFAIS, currently it works as documented and as intended.
However I am not very familiar with this code. So I might be completely mistaken. I came across this whilst trying work out why my config was not working on Ubuntu 15.10. However the NM version there appears to be very old and I suspect that interface-names in the conf for exclusion do not work for a number of other reasons :-)
A quick check reveals that 15.10 comes with 1.0.4-0ubuntu5 version which has this feature too. So, it should work there. If something is not working, it might be a bug. But I still don't see anything wrong. It'd be best to show the configuration you were using and explain the observed behavior (contrary to your expectation). ciao, Thomas
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