Hello, On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:34:38PM +0200, hammy.l...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > >> Do you have some general idea of how multi-component pattern matching > >> could be implemented more efficiently than that? Some vague pointer > >> should suffice for me to adapt the idea to unionfs. > > > > How about matching one component at a time? > > [...] > > Just realized that there are many programs that do this pattern matching, > and indeed glibc's glob() does exactly this. It even has some extensions > so that it can be used on structures other than directories. > > Forget what I said and just use glob().
Thanks for information :-) I will certainly use glob, if nobody minds. Regards, scolobb