On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:28:33 -0500, joshua stein wrote:

> Anyone want to bikeshed this language?

I think it is more helpful to refer to glob(7) than glob(3).
Perhaps something like this.

 - todd

Index: share/man/man5/fbtab.5
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RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/fbtab.5,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -p -u -r1.14 fbtab.5
--- share/man/man5/fbtab.5      8 Sep 2014 01:27:55 -0000       1.14
+++ share/man/man5/fbtab.5      16 Apr 2022 00:52:58 -0000
@@ -51,15 +51,11 @@ An octal permission number (0600), as us
 .It Other devices
 The final field is a colon
 .Pq Ql \&:
-delimited list of devices (e.g.,
-.Dq /dev/console:/dev/fd0a ) .
-All device names are absolute paths.
-A path that ends in
-.Dq /\&*
-refers to all directory entries except
-.Dq \&.
-and
-.Dq \&.\&. .
+delimited list of device paths (e.g.,
+.Dq /dev/console:/dev/fd0a:/dev/wskbd* ) .
+Device paths may include shell-style globbing patterns (see
+.Xr glob 7 ) ,
+potentially matching multiple devices.
 .El
 .Pp
 The
@@ -83,6 +79,7 @@ the files once again belonging to root.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr login 1 ,
 .Xr login_fbtab 3 ,
+.Xr glob 7 ,
 .Xr init 8
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An Guido van Rooij

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