From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:51:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mention glob()
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_7_1~64
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eec86958b8aaa47540cc00f47c11f9d4a7bc8f26;p=sudo

mention glob()
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diff --git a/sudoers.pod b/sudoers.pod
index c3256bc43..4a56a33e7 100644
--- a/sudoers.pod
+++ b/sudoers.pod
@@ -376,9 +376,10 @@ be overridden by use of the C<UNSETENV> tag.
 =head2 Wildcards
 
 B<sudo> allows shell-style I<wildcards> (aka meta or glob characters)
-to be used in hostnames, pathnames and command line arguments in the
-I<sudoers> file.  Wildcard matching is done via the B<POSIX>
-L<fnmatch(3)> routine.  Note that these are I<not> regular expressions.
+to be used in hostnames, pathnames and command line arguments in
+the I<sudoers> file.  Wildcard matching is done via the B<POSIX>
+L<glob(3)> and L<fnmatch(3)> routines.  Note that these are I<not>
+regular expressions.
 
 =over 8
 
@@ -405,10 +406,10 @@ escape special characters such as: "*", "?", "[", and "}".
 
 =back
 
-POSIX character classes may also be used if your system's
-L<fnmatch(3)> function supports them.  However, because the
-C<':'> character has special meaning in I<sudoers>, it must
-be escaped.  For example:
+POSIX character classes may also be used if your system's L<glob(3)>
+and L<fnmatch(3)> functions support them.  However, because the
+C<':'> character has special meaning in I<sudoers>, it must be
+escaped.  For example:
 
     /bin/ls [[\:alpha\:]]*
 
@@ -1449,7 +1450,7 @@ B<sudoedit>.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<rsh(1)>, L<su(1)>, L<fnmatch(3)>, L<sudo(8)>, L<visudo(8)>
+L<rsh(1)>, L<su(1)>, L<fnmatch(3)>, L<glob(3)>, L<sudo(8)>, L<visudo(8)>
 
 =head1 CAVEATS