Re: grep 2.5: --only for long line runs forever

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:46:55AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Sorry, but I _still_ cannot reproduce it with your test sample.  Could
> you be more specific about what version of grep 2.5 you are using?
> Maybe it has some third-party patches that makes it behave this way.

I'm afraid we'd end up seeing that the call to the regex engine hangs.

The easiest path at the moment is to compile gawk, as it has it's own
regex library.

Stepan