Commit e9e93550 authored by Geoff Simmons's avatar Geoff Simmons

Another shot at motivating std.fnmatch() in the 6.1 release notes.

IMO the release notes are not an appropriate place to point to a
third-party VMOD.
parent 2423a578
......@@ -135,11 +135,13 @@ VMODs
=====
Added the :ref:`func_fnmatch` function to :ref:`vmod_std(3)`, which
you can use for shell-style wildcard matching. :ref:`func_fnmatch` can
be more efficient than regular expressions, in particular in cases
where the pattern is dynamically defined.
.. should we mention vmod_re for dynamic regexen?
you can use for shell-style wildcard matching. Wildcard patterns may
be a good fit for matching URLs, to match against a pattern like
``/foo/*/bar/*``. The patterns can be built at runtime, if you need to
do that, since they don't need the pre-compile step at VCL load time
that is required for regular expressions. And if you are simply more
comfortable with the wildcard syntax than with regular expressions,
you now have the option.
:ref:`vmod_unix(3)` is now supported for SunOS and descendants. This
entails changing the privilege set of the child process while the VMOD
......
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment