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bug#17856: Unmatched right parenthesis in ERE
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Aharon Robbins |
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bug#17856: Unmatched right parenthesis in ERE |
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Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:05:23 -0400 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 |
Catching up on old mail...
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:35:48 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: bug#17856: Unmatched right parenthesis in ERE
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> > Y'all might want to consider basing RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_EGREP
> > off of RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_EXTENDED; that would have gotten this case.
>
> At some point we should clean out those old RE_SYNTAX_* macros; half of
> them are just plain wrong anyway. However, doing that will require a
> fix to glibc, which would take quite a long time to propagate through,
> and in the meantime the attached patch should suffice.
Actually, I suspect that they'd be willing to accept updates to those
macros. I don't think any could be removed, but we should be able to
get them fixed.
Thanks,
Arnold
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