From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T23:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: File.fnmatch and **

Hi,

In message "Re: File.fnmatch and **"
    on Sun, 3 Apr 2005 19:14:42 +0900, Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@sondergaard.cc> writes:

|I just wonder why only Dir.glob understands the ** pattern.

(a) fnmatch conforms POSIX standard which does not contain **
    pattern. 

(b) besides that, there's no good implementation of fnmatch that
    supports ** pattern when FNM_PATHNAME is specified.

							matz.