Re: [PATCH] Apply pattern-matching immediately beneath the stow directory.

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:44:20AM +0100, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:06:21PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:25:39AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net
> > wrote:
> 
> > > I still don't understand why you think that the current hardcoded
> > > "descend into all directories, then match all subdirectories against
> > > foo" is more efficient than "descend into all directories matching *
> > > (i.e. all directories), then match all subdirectories against
> > > foo"?...
> [...]
> > The misunderstanding, IMHO, appeared mainly due to the fact that I
> > didn't universally take into account the fact that you don't need to
> > go deeper than the number of components in the pattern :-(
> 
> Well, now that the misunderstanding seems resolved -- what's the status
> on this?...

This has been discussed on the IRC (Oct 29, 2009) and I will answer
for the record.

I haven't worked on this problem for a long time already due to the
fact that I only have the possibility to work on a single Hurd task at
a time.  I will look into this problem soon and will decide whether it
can be implemented without much effort.  If it proves to possible,
I'll do this more or less soon; otherwise I'll leave it for the better
times.

Regards,
scolobb