Re: multitail-7.1.5-1 appears to be broken: Execution of regular expression failed with error: MultiTail warning:

Andrew Schulman via Cygwin <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:51:36 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 7 May 2026 10:34:07 -0600, in gmane.os.cygwin you wrote:

>Cygwin version in use:
>CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 10029233 3.6.7-1.x86_64 2026-03-02 20:13 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
>
>Execution of regular expression failed with error: MultiTail warning:
>regular expression failed, reason: match failed.
>
>Also, the "Press any key to exit this screen" error message is
>incorrect, in that a Ctrl-C is required to exit the error screen
>instead of simply
>pressing any key to exit.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Keith Christian

OK, sorry it took me so long to get back to this. I finally reported this
problem upstream and they promptly fixed it. I applied the patch in version
7.1.5-2, which is building now and should be out within a day. Andrew

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