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

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:17:24PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> I never said that I was right either, I said that it was "quite
> possible" that they introduced the bug.  We are both in the dark at
> who introduced the bug, it might have been SuSE, maybe someone else.
> 
> But since SuSE has patched their glibc version quite hard, then I
> think there is a grater chance that they broke something.

OK, so I bothered to make an experiment: I don't have an instalation of
glibc-2.2.2 at hand but I took the appropriate versions of regex.[ch],
put them into the lib subdirectory and compiled grep --with-included-regex.

I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.

Thus, yes, I see your explanation as quite probable, now.

Sorry if I pushed my previous opinion too hard.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan