:As a matter of fact I only intended to do partial string matching, at
:best a few special formatters or so to specify a beginning or end of a
:string.
:
:Do we need anything besides that? In my opinion you normally would
:want to match them by prefix or device group (ad*, da*, ...) or so, no
:need for fancy regexps... And also I'd prefer not having to rely on a
:daemon to do all the ruling, it's probably safer and easier to just
:load rules.
* and ? wildcarding. Here, you can adapt this code (change the
copyright to the DragonFly general copyright and maybe fixup the
capitalization in the procedure names to match kernel usage):
fetch http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/wildcmp.c
While you could do simple prefix matching, my preference is to
actually have */? wildcard support in there because it's a
clearer format.
-Matt
