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authorDu, Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com>2014-01-23 15:54:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 16:36:55 -0800
commitaace05097a0fd467230e39acb148be0fdaa90068 (patch)
treeca2e61621bcb24ad83f3f145987c8ffd5c28c65b /include
parent0d9dfc23f4d8c17365c84eb48ecca28b963ba192 (diff)
lib/parser.c: add match_wildcard() function
match_wildcard function is a simple implementation of wildcard matching algorithm. It only supports two usual wildcardes: '*' - matches zero or more characters '?' - matches one character This algorithm is safe since it is non-recursive. Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/parser.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/parser.h b/include/linux/parser.h
index ea2281e726f..39d5b7955b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/parser.h
+++ b/include/linux/parser.h
@@ -29,5 +29,6 @@ int match_token(char *, const match_table_t table, substring_t args[]);
int match_int(substring_t *, int *result);
int match_octal(substring_t *, int *result);
int match_hex(substring_t *, int *result);
+bool match_wildcard(const char *pattern, const char *str);
size_t match_strlcpy(char *, const substring_t *, size_t);
char *match_strdup(const substring_t *);