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diff --git a/manual/pattern.texi b/manual/pattern.texi index 596b72d4fa..0fc5e81c75 100644 --- a/manual/pattern.texi +++ b/manual/pattern.texi @@ -466,6 +466,21 @@ glob ("~homer/bin/*", GLOB_TILDE, NULL, &result) @end smallexample This functionality is equivalent to what is available in C-shells. + +@comment glob.h +@comment GNU +@item GLOB_ONLYDIR +If this flag is used the globbing function takes this as a +@strong{hint} that the caller is only interested in directories +matching the pattern. If the information about the type of the file +is easily available non-directories will be rejected but no extra +work will be done to determine the information for each file. I.e., +the caller must still be able to filter directories out. + +This functionality is only available witht eh GNU @code{glob} +implementation. It is mainly used internally to increase the +performance but might be useful for a user as well and therefore is +documented here. @end table Calling @code{glob} will in most cases allocate resources which are used |