[PATCH] pgrep: Fix -x option

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 28 11:43:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard at bwalle.de> wrote:
> Because when -x is used (exact match), then we cannot compile the
> regular expression with REG_NOSUB. The manual page regcomp(3) states
> in section "Byte offsets":
>
>     Unless REG_NOSUB was set for the compilation of the pattern
>     buffer, it is possible to obtain substring match addressing
>     information.
>
> The problem was detected on an ARM system with glibc 2.16.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard at bwalle.de>

Applied, thanks!


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