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--- Mer 18/6/08, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:

...
>=20
> No, "here is a new bsd grep, but change all your
> scripts that have=20
> relied on legitimate behavior of grep in the past" is
> a non-starter. I=20
> haven't checked POSIX to see whether the particular
> construction I am=20
> using fits the spec or not, but I really don't care. We
> need to be=20
> feature-compatible with the GNU versions of these tools,
> both for=20
> legacy scripts and also for those users migrating over from
> linux.
>=20

OK, I probably exaggerated in that GNUisms are not all that bad. Let's look=
 at it this way.. the problem is in regex so I don't see fit to start adapt=
ing ugly workarounds in BSD grep. If we really *need* the workaround I want=
 to be able to ifdef it out for my own testing purposes.

By all means we will still need a GNU grep port available so we can have th=
e best from both worlds (I already a port and sent it to Gabor for testing =
but I don't want to maintain it).

Pedro.
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