Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-3.7.98-c9ac

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/6/22 03:44, Simon Josefsson via wrote:
> >    Regular expressions like [:space:] are now errors even if
>                                               ^
> >    POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, since POSIX now allows the GNU behavior.
> Shouldn't that be 'not'?

No, I think "now" is right. Here's the old behavior and the new one:

$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes grep-3.7 '[:space:]' /dev/null; echo $?
1
$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes grep-current '[:space:]' /dev/null; echo $?
grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
2