Re: find (and friends) bug?

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:10:25 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Also, am I alone in thinking that accurately implementing Posix
> regexps is a desirable goal for the GNU tools?

No.  It's just that nobody has gotten around to doing it.  It's long
been on the glibc to-do list.  So long that the POSIX spec has changed
out from underneath it.  (At least it's a bit easier to implement now.  :-)

Also, part of the problem is that for quite some time glibc regex did
not support some features required for backwards compatibility with
BSD; for example "egrep '{1'".  I think this has been fixed, but it
takes a while for everybody to get the word.

Recently a new effort has started to redo regex.c outside the glibc
environment.  I'm not sure what the relationship is between it and
glibc.  Please see <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/> and
<http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/>.

Complicated enough for you?   It is for me....