* dir.c (Init_Dir): add a new method File::fnmatch? along with

  File::Constants::FNM_*.  While I am here, FNM_NOCASE is renamed
  to FNM_CASEFOLD which is commonly used by *BSD and GNU libc.


git-svn-id: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk@1525 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

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diff --git a/doc/NEWS b/doc/NEWS
index 6db42b871..9bf047329 100644
--- a/doc/NEWS
+++ b/doc/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+: File#fnmatch, File::Constants::FNM_*
+
+  Added.  Refer to the fnmatch(3) manpage for details.
+
+  e.g.
+
+    # exclude files matching "*.bak".
+    files.reject! { |fn| File::fnmatch?("*.bak", fn) }
+
 : Method#==
 
   Added.