[systemd-devel] EXT :Antw: [EXT] Udev Regex

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 06.05.20 13:03, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) (Kevin.Boyce at ngc.com) wrote:

> Ulrich,
>
> I just noticed that too.  This seems rather restrictive given that one could have a system with many drives, and with GPT it is not unreasonable to have a large number of partitions as well.
>
> There should be a way in udev to write rules that can distinguish between /dev/sda and /dev/sdzfe87.  Matching with sd[a-z]* or even sd* does not provide enough granularity.
>
> What would it take to get this sort of request in to systemd-udev to
> support perl style regular expressions that can group terms and
> match multiple instances of a group with '+'?

I am sorry, but no. We are talking about device nodes, i.e. file
objects in the file system tree. It's generally understood that files
are matched with globs, not regexes.

There are things where regexes might be fine, but not matching of file
names.

Or to say this differently: as soon as you convinced bash to replace
its glob matching with regex matching we can consider this for udev
too.

Lennart

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