So therefore udev should be able to make use of extended globbing...? -----Original Message----- From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2020 9:49 AM To: Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> Cc: Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) <kevin.bo...@ngc.com>; systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: EXT :Re: [systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Udev Regex
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:43 PM Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > > On Mi, 06.05.20 13:03, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) (kevin.bo...@ngc.com) wrote: > > > Ulrich, > > > > I just noticed that too. This seems rather restrictive given that one > > could have a system with many drives, and with GPT it is not unreasonable > > to have a large number of partitions as well. > > > > There should be a way in udev to write rules that can distinguish between > > /dev/sda and /dev/sdzfe87. Matching with sd[a-z]* or even sd* does not > > provide enough granularity. > > > > What would it take to get this sort of request in to systemd-udev to > > support perl style regular expressions that can group terms and > > match multiple instances of a group with '+'? > > I am sorry, but no. We are talking about device nodes, i.e. file > objects in the file system tree. It's generally understood that files > are matched with globs, not regexes. > > There are things where regexes might be fine, but not matching of file > names. > > Or to say this differently: as soon as you convinced bash to replace > its glob matching with regex matching we can consider this for udev > too. > bash already does it if extglob is set. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
