match_pattern(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is match_pattern from the Kernel API Manual — and it's literally here to compare a string with a pattern which might include wildcard '*' and '?'. 🦋

also, fair warning: there's a TODO in the house: TODO : implement consideration about DOS_DOT, DOS_QM and DOS_STAR. yes, that's a literal TODO, not me being dramatic 😭.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int match_pattern (const char *str , size_t len , const char *pattern );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• str — string to compare with a pattern. the one being matched, the main character of the operation 👑
• len — string length. the length number, periodt.
• pattern — pattern string which might include wildcard '*' and '?'. it's giving “pattern vibe check” iykyk 💅

💅 RETURN 💅

0 if pattern matched with the string, otherwise non zero value. so zero is the slay matched case, and non-zero is the “nope, not today” case 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/misc.c — peep convert_to_nt_pathname(9) and ksmbd_extract_sharename(9) too 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one comes from ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026, and it's literally match_pattern(9) — mwah 💋