Bug in busybox sed - this one is real

[Rich Felker]

Ping. Anybody looked at this? I filed it as bug # 5246.

Rich

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 11:12:09PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> $ echo hello | busybox sed 's/l*/@/g'
> @he at o
> $ echo hello | sed 's/l*/@/g'
> @h at e@o@
> 
> The latter is of course correct. My naive diagnosis is that Busybox
> sed's 'g' option has an off-by-one error in its next-match search,
> i.e. advanced by one character too many before searching for the next
> match.
> 
> Rich
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