Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:40:47 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 223524] whatis 'c++' fails with regex error Message-ID: <bug-223524-227-NfWblu5dYm@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-223524-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-223524-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223524 Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kevans@freebsd.org --- Comment #4 from Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> --- Hi, I'll take a look at fixing this in the upcoming weeks. The branch at [1] is inherently wrong; they can't just take a string and stuff it into an ERE like that and hope it works-- one needs to escape any special characters to make them ordinary, and the user shouldn't be expected to do this manually. The behavior from stable/10 is technically wrong, but yields the correct result by coincidence because gnuregex allows 'c++', though it has a different meaning than expected. I think we can come up with a reasonable compromise that still does exactly what you expect it to do. [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/mdocml/mansearch.c?revision=324362&view=markup#l754 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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