[BusyBox] Re: [patch] Simplify the heck out of the sed newline hack.

[Glenn McGrath]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:26:59 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Here's a test program to show that glibc regex is matching patterns
> containing newlines just fine.  (I haven't tested uclibc regex, but if
> it doesn't work and glibc does, that's a bug and I'll fix it.)
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   regex_t regex;
>   regmatch_t match;
> //  char grepstr[]="fred[123]ish";
> //  char *string="abcfred2ishdef";
>   char *grepstr="oom\nping";
>   char *string="thingoom\npingb";
> 
>   printf("%d\n",regcomp(&regex, grepstr, REG_NEWLINE));
>   printf("%d\n",regexec(&regex,string,1,&match,0));
>   printf("%d %d\n",match.rm_so,match.rm_eo);
> }

Interesting, its definetly a bug in sed.c then, and the current newline
hack is the wrong approach.


Glenn