[Samba] regular expression for veto files directive?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jul 26 15:44:57 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:34:24AM +0200, Robert Penz wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> I want to enforce on a samba share, that every file needs to contain a 
> version. 
> 
> like: foobar-02.doc or blah-01.xls 
> 
> I thought something like 
> 
> veto files = /^.*\D\D\.(doc|xls|ppt)$/ 
> 
> would to it. But it ignores that. are there any other options?

No, veto files doesn't allow regexps. I decided evaluating the
regexp would be too expensive on every file lookup - we currently
only allow wildcards. If you can show me a patch with regexp support
we can test how expensive it is before accepting it.

Jeremy.


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