From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199904200018.UAA18743@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: fnmatch: GNU's and ours
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:18:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
In-Reply-To: <199904191745.NAA02062@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Apr 19, 99 01:45:41 pm
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Bonjour
> 
> 
> > GNU fnmatch uses FNM_CASEFOLD, while we define FNM_NOCASE.  DJ, didn't
> > you tell that FNM_NOCASE is Posix?  If so, does it mean that GNU's
> > version doesn't comply?  I find that hard to believe.
> 

Extensions, for example my Solaris box has:
#define FNM_IGNORECASE  0x08    /* Ignore case when making comparisons */

It makes porting a nightmare, sigh same goes for glob() fortunately
regex and friends are in better shape.

> POSIX only defines FNM_NOESCAPE, FNM_PATHNAME, and FNM_PERIOD.
> 


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au revoir, alain
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