[BusyBox] bug#1008: regexp problems
Erik Andersen
andersen at lineo.com
Mon Jun 26 19:12:22 UTC 2000
Package: busybox
Version: 0.45
Severity: normal
The current regular expression processing code in BusyBox has
some real limitations. For example:
- 'grep foo$ file' doesn't work
- 'grep *foo file' segfaults
Both of these are hard to fix. In addition, I have to ask myself,
why does BusyBox have its one regexp code when libc provides this
(and the libc stuff can be reasonably expected to work)?
Clearly the solution is to remove the busybox regexp code and
migrate to using the libc regexp code instead.
-Erik
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