From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T01:45:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's fnmatch vs fnmatch.h

On 9/18/07, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just curious - what's the difference between fnmatch.h and the
> custom version that Ruby has in dir.c? I'm just wondering why it wasn't
> used if found, since I think it exists on most *nix platforms.
>

Ruby implements its own version in order to be able to support ** patterns.
The POSIX version treats ** the same as *.

Conveniently, Brian recently wrote an article about this:
http://blog.brightredglow.com/2007/9/17/dear-glob