Re: Wildcards matching ".": exports bug or just documentation bug?

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:57:04PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
 
> mountd treats wildcards in hostnames in the exports file as matching
> anything, including ".".
> However, the exports man page explicitly states that "*" and "?" do not
> match ".":
 
> So, which is right, the actual behaviour or the documented behaviour?
> I'd tend to lean towards the former.

Ping?  This is a pretty serious discrepancy between the documented and
implemented behaviour.  The documentation *explicitly* states that

	*.com

won't match foo.bar.com, but the implentation matches this just fine.
Given that the documented behaviour doesn't actually give you a way to
match an export for all arbitrarily-deep subdomains underneath a
domain, I'd think matching subdomains of all levels with "*" makes
more sense than matching only a single level, so it's the
documentation that needs to be updated.

--Stephen