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

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:55:41PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:24:48PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov 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?
> 
> For instance, given `*/*/*' you iterate through all files in the
> current directory and find matches to `*/' (the slash filters out
> non-directories).  For each match you recurse, making the match the
> current directory and with the pattern with the tested component removed,
> e.g. `*/*'.  The recursion continues until the pattern is static or
> there are no matches.
> 
> (Clarification: by current directory I don't mean the process' CWD,
> just the directory currently being iterated.)

That's exactly what I was talking about.  (Though I forgot to mention
some details you have mentioned.)  I just wanted to say that it is not
really efficient.

But, as I've said in another mail, I guess I should think about
efficiency differently in this case.  My initial goal was to just
modify the target of pattern-matching a bit.  I guess the extending
the functionality would be okay.

Regards,
scolobb

P.S. Sorry for eventual bad sentence formulation in this and other
letters I've posted recently: it's late here and I need to answer the
mails today, since I'm leaving tomorrow, as I have already announced.