Re: Bug in Expr 2.0.12 - .* too greedy

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:03:47 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
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Larry Jones wrote:

>Derek Robert Price writes:
>  
>
>>The expr, version 2.0.12, which happens to be distributed with RH Linux 
>>8.0 is broken.  .* is way too greedy.  Here's a test case:
>>    
>>
>
>FWIW, the oldest 2.0.x I can find is 2.0.13 and it seems to work
>correctly, so I'm guessing the bug didn't last long.  RH just picked
>an unfortunate version to distribute.
>  
>

Actually, I can duplicate the bug on my machine with the 4.5.3 that Jim 
Meyering suggested.  I think the bug is in glibc 2.2.93. 
 [email protected] at RedHat tells me that expr uses the GNU regex 
library.  I'm looking into that now.  With any luck, someone at RedHat 
is looking into it too.  :)

Derek

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