Thanks, I corrected the ones I found ...
On Monday 10 April 2006 15:07, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:09:03 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> said:
> >
> > On Monday 10 April 2006 13:15, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > > >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:22:59 +0200, Kern Sibbald
> > > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > It seems that it is becoming more frequent (probably because of the
> > > > increasing number of Bacula users) that users submit support
> > > > questions to the bugs database. This morning a user submitted a bug
> > > > stating that the WildFile option was broken. Normally, I would have
> > > > dismissed this as a support problem because most of us realize that
> > > > wild-cards and regexes are awfully tricky.
> > > >
> > > > However, this user presented a *really* simple case with debug
> > > > output, so I took a look at it, and surprise both WildFile and
> > > > RegexFile are broken because they match against the full path and
> > > > filename rather than just the filename.
> > > >
> > > > I wonder how many users have torn out their hair trying to figure out
> > > > why WildFile or RegexFile didn't work :-(
> > >
> > > Are you really sure that is a bug? I think the word "filename" in the
> > > documentation is ambiguous, but when it says "No directories will be
> > > matched by this directive" it does not mean that the matching is
> > > performed only on the basename part.
> > >
> > > The examples in "A Windows Example FileSet" are also written to assume
> > > that WildFile compares the whole name.
> > >
> > > The current behaviour is very useful because it allows files in
> > > selected directories to be matched, without accidentally matching
> > > subdirectories (as Wild will do).
> >
> > After a little more thought about this, I'm not so sure I should change
> > the behavior. It is not what I had originally intended (I didn't program
> > it), but to change it now, given all the examples in the doc would create
> > a number of problems.
> >
> > I think the best solution is to ensure that the documentation is
> > extremely clear, then if there is really a demand, implement a new option
> > such as WildFilename that matches against only the filename (basename).
>
> Yes, that's probably the best thing. There are a couple of unix examples
> using .journal and .autofsck in the doc that need fixing.
>
> __Martin
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