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List:       busybox
Subject:    [BusyBox] bug#1008: regexp problems
From:       Erik Andersen <andersen () lineo ! com>
Date:       2000-06-26 19:12:22
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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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