Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:30:19 GMT From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/153257: [libc] [patch] regex(3): Add support for \< and \> word delimiters Message-ID: <201103261730.p2QHUJkp085069@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/153257; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: bin/153257: [libc] [patch] regex(3): Add support for \< and \> word delimiters
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
This patch is debatable: while it supports better the Solaris
and GNU behaviour, this is not something required by POSIX.
The behaviour is also used by some scripts in the ports tree
to distinguish between GNU sed and BSD sed.
For now I guess it may be better if we don't apply this
patch and let a future regex replacement (TRE?) decide
if it supports the extensions or not.
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