On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 10:19 +0100, Florian Weimer via Elfutils-devel wrote: > * Rich Felker: > > > As I stated in my other reply, I'm opposed to that because it does not > > admit implementation with the same (very desirable) big-O properties, > > and the "extmatch" syntax is not widely known or widely used. > > The syntax comes from ksh and is used in shell scripts. (bash requires > the extglob option to enable it, which makes it easy to search for > instances.)
Right, it is also adopted by zsh and some other shells. The big-O properties don't really matter in this case because fnmatch is used on small input strings like file names (or in this case section names). Cheers, Mark
