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Re: find (and friends) bug?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: find (and friends) bug? |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:03:31 -0800 (PST) |
> 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....
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