[PATCH 06/10] parser: Use full regexps for delegation rules paths
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Jan 7 07:53:30 AEDT 2016
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 17:17 +0000, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
>
> Actually, this patch adds regex support in place of the fnmatch
> already used. In light of the security risks, I'm reluctant to add
> support for this in its current form. Far as I see it, we can either
> avoid regex support or if it's valuable enough to include, make it an
> optional feature that can be enabled/disabled accordingly. I'd rather
> the former for simplicity, though I don't have any visibility into
> how useful this is so I'd like input. Thoughts?
Personally, I see very little use for regex matches over fnmatch. I'd
expect that, as far as we'd use it for wireless, to really only have
patterns like
my/path/*
your/path/*
johannes
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