From 0fc95b8219bc2c47c00b206f592a5ad1830c023a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:15:54 +0000 Subject: Update. 2001-02-12 Ulrich Drepper * sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_j0l.c: New file. Contributed by Stephen L. Moshier . 2001-02-11 Jakub Jelinek * sysdeps/generic/strtoll.c (__strtoq_internal): Ressurect alias which was exported from libc. * sysdeps/generic/strtoull.c (__strtouq_internal): Likewise. --- manual/pattern.texi | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 119 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'manual') diff --git a/manual/pattern.texi b/manual/pattern.texi index 1a90ddc..6479a1f 100644 --- a/manual/pattern.texi +++ b/manual/pattern.texi @@ -205,6 +205,84 @@ This is a GNU extension. @end table @end deftp +For use in the @code{glob64} function @file{glob.h} contains another +definition for a very similar type. @code{glob64_t} differs from +@code{glob_t} only in the types of the members @code{gl_readdir}, +@code{gl_stat}, and @code{gl_lstat}. + +@comment glob.h +@comment GNU +@deftp {Data Type} glob64_t +This data type holds a pointer to a word vector. More precisely, it +records both the address of the word vector and its size. The GNU +implementation contains some more fields which are non-standard +extensions. + +@table @code +@item gl_pathc +The number of elements in the vector, excluding the initial null entries +if the GLOB_DOOFFS flag is used (see gl_offs below). + +@item gl_pathv +The address of the vector. This field has type @w{@code{char **}}. + +@item gl_offs +The offset of the first real element of the vector, from its nominal +address in the @code{gl_pathv} field. Unlike the other fields, this +is always an input to @code{glob}, rather than an output from it. + +If you use a nonzero offset, then that many elements at the beginning of +the vector are left empty. (The @code{glob} function fills them with +null pointers.) + +The @code{gl_offs} field is meaningful only if you use the +@code{GLOB_DOOFFS} flag. Otherwise, the offset is always zero +regardless of what is in this field, and the first real element comes at +the beginning of the vector. + +@item gl_closedir +The address of an alternative implementation of the @code{closedir} +function. It is used if the @code{GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC} bit is set in +the flag parameter. The type of this field is +@w{@code{void (*) (void *)}}. + +This is a GNU extension. + +@item gl_readdir +The address of an alternative implementation of the @code{readdir64} +function used to read the contents of a directory. It is used if the +@code{GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC} bit is set in the flag parameter. The type of +this field is @w{@code{struct dirent64 *(*) (void *)}}. + +This is a GNU extension. + +@item gl_opendir +The address of an alternative implementation of the @code{opendir} +function. It is used if the @code{GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC} bit is set in +the flag parameter. The type of this field is +@w{@code{void *(*) (const char *)}}. + +This is a GNU extension. + +@item gl_stat +The address of an alternative implementation of the @code{stat64} function +to get information about an object in the filesystem. It is used if the +@code{GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC} bit is set in the flag parameter. The type of +this field is @w{@code{int (*) (const char *, struct stat64 *)}}. + +This is a GNU extension. + +@item gl_lstat +The address of an alternative implementation of the @code{lstat64} +function to get information about an object in the filesystems, not +following symbolic links. It is used if the @code{GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC} bit +is set in the flag parameter. The type of this field is @code{@w{int +(*) (const char *,} @w{struct stat64 *)}}. + +This is a GNU extension. +@end table +@end deftp + @comment glob.h @comment POSIX.2 @deftypefun int glob (const char *@var{pattern}, int @var{flags}, int (*@var{errfunc}) (const char *@var{filename}, int @var{error-code}), glob_t *@var{vector-ptr}) @@ -234,7 +312,7 @@ that your application is making. If @code{glob} succeeds, it returns 0. Otherwise, it returns one of these error codes: -@table @code +@vtable @code @comment glob.h @comment POSIX.2 @item GLOB_ABORTED @@ -261,10 +339,38 @@ at least one file. @comment POSIX.2 @item GLOB_NOSPACE It was impossible to allocate memory to hold the result. -@end table +@end vtable In the event of an error, @code{glob} stores information in @code{*@var{vector-ptr}} about all the matches it has found so far. + +It is important to notive that the @code{glob} function will not fail if +it encounters directories or files which cannot be handled without the +LFS interfaces. The implementation of @code{glob} is supposed to use +these functions internally. This at least is the assumptions made by +the Unix standard. The GNU extension of allowing the user to provide +own directory handling and @code{stat} functions complicates things a +bit. If these callback functions are used and a large file or directory +is encountered @code{glob} @emph{can} fail. +@end deftypefun + +@comment glob.h +@comment GNU +@deftypefun int glob64 (const char *@var{pattern}, int @var{flags}, int (*@var{errfunc}) (const char *@var{filename}, int @var{error-code}), glob64_t *@var{vector-ptr}) +The @code{glob64} function was added as part of the Large File Summit +extensions but is not part of the original LFS proposal. The reason for +this is simple: it is not necessary. The necessity for a @code{glob64} +function is added by the extensions of the GNU @code{glob} +implementation which allows the user to provide own directory handling +and @code{stat} functions. The @code{readdir} and @code{stat} functions +do depend on the choice of @code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} since the definition +of the types @code{struct dirent} and @code{struct stat} will change +depending on the choice. + +Beside this difference the @code{glob64} works just like @code{glob} in +all aspects. + +This function is a GNU extension. @end deftypefun @node Flags for Globbing @@ -274,7 +380,7 @@ This section describes the flags that you can specify in the @var{flags} argument to @code{glob}. Choose the flags you want, and combine them with the C bitwise OR operator @code{|}. -@table @code +@vtable @code @comment glob.h @comment POSIX.2 @item GLOB_APPEND @@ -362,7 +468,7 @@ If you use @code{GLOB_NOESCAPE}, then @samp{\} is an ordinary character. @code{glob} does its work by calling the function @code{fnmatch} repeatedly. It handles the flag @code{GLOB_NOESCAPE} by turning on the @code{FNM_NOESCAPE} flag in calls to @code{fnmatch}. -@end table +@end vtable @node More Flags for Globbing @subsection More Flags for Globbing @@ -372,7 +478,7 @@ Beside the flags described in the last section, the GNU implementation of @file{glob.h} file. Some of the extensions implement functionality which is available in modern shell implementations. -@table @code +@vtable @code @comment glob.h @comment GNU @item GLOB_PERIOD @@ -502,7 +608,7 @@ This functionality is only available with the GNU @code{glob} implementation. It is mainly used internally to increase the performance but might be useful for a user as well and therefore is documented here. -@end table +@end vtable Calling @code{glob} will in most cases allocate resources which are used to represent the result of the function call. If the same object of @@ -519,6 +625,13 @@ calls to @code{glob} associated with the object pointed to by @code{glob_t} typed object isn't used anymore. @end deftypefun +@comment glob.h +@comment GNU +@deftypefun void globfree64 (glob64_t *@var{pglob}) +This function is equivalent to @code{globfree} but it frees records of +type @code{glob64_t} which were allocated by @code{glob64}. +@end deftypefun + @node Regular Expressions @section Regular Expression Matching -- cgit v1.1