bug#81525: 32.0.50; [PATCH] Performance improvement for rgrep's find command

On 2026-07-31 22:36, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Thanks.  Can you write down a proof/argument that this will match
> exactly the same things, in the commit message and/or this bug?

Yes, fair request -- especially as upon review it needs more work.

It *will* do that for all of the default entries in the list, but
I see now that wildcards will behave differently (e.g. the find
manual includes an example of "sr*sc" matching "src/misc" when
used with -path, because "The metacharacters do not treat `/' or
`.' specially".

I expect I'll want to just treat all metacharacters the same way
that I'm currently treating "/", and reserve -name for only literal
file basenames.