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

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi Alfred,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:35:31PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > I.e. what is SuSE GNU/Linux 8.1 using
>    # rpm -q -f /usr/lib/libc.so
>    glibc-devel-2.2.5-151
> 
>    > and what is SuSE GNU/Linux 7.2 using?
>    # rpm -q -f /usr/lib/libc.so
>    glibc-devel-2.2.2-67
> 
> It is quite possible the SuSE introduced this bug, I have no idea what
> kind of patches the have added.

to be fair to them: you are most probably wrong.

AFAIK, the regex code has been completely rewritten, I believe the code
was donated by IBM Japan, the guy most involved with it was
        Isamu Hasegawa  <address@hidden>

According to the CVS
        http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc?cvsroot=glibc
at the times of glibc 2.2.2 there still was the old code.

Though I think that the main motive was that the old code was not
supporting locales well, I guess there might have been other problems
with the code as well.

So I'd say the problem might be in the (old version of) glibc, not in any
SuSE patches to it.

Let's beleive SuSE is not guilty here, unless you support it by
an evidence.

Disclaimer: I'm a former SuSE employee.
As far as my feelings are concerned, though, I wouldn't say that SuSE
is the best distribution for everything/everyone.  OTOH, I beleive their
patches rather add value then subtract.

This mail has got a bit longer then I meant, sorry.

Stepan Kasal