[PATCH/RFC 04/10] ref-filter: skip deref specifier in match_atom_name()

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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>

Date

Nov 11, 2015, 19:44 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <Karthik.188@gmail.com>
---
 ref-filter.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index 1542f5f..4af28ef 100644
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ static int match_atom_name(const char *name, const char *atom_name, const char *
 {
 	const char *body;
 
+	/*  skip the deref specifier*/
+	if (name[0] == '*')
+		name++;
+
 	if (!skip_prefix(name, atom_name, &body))
 		return 0; /* doesn't even begin with "atom_name" */
 	if (!body[0]) {

-- 
2.6.2