Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:16:54 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De (Wolfgang Helbig) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some forgotten submits Message-ID: <199707140846.SAA09257@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707140840.KAA04674@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from Wolfgang Helbig at "Jul 14, 97 10:40:49 am"
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Wolfgang Helbig stands accused of saying: > > It is post the NetBSD changes and this buck was introduced into > libedit with the following commit: (to /usr/src/lib/libedit/search.c) Ok, that's the one I referred to. > revision 1.5 > date: 1997/06/25 08:14:17; author: msmith; state: Exp; lines: +30 -29 > Update libedit with changes from NetBSD. Includes history load/save, > some buffer overflow guards and some stylistic cleanups. > Also adds manpages. > > As it says in the log file for search.c, in RELENG_2_2_2_RELEASE > you still have revision 1.4 i.e. you should not see the bug. Unless I had perhaps installed the newer libedit on my system here, but you're lucky, I haven't. > In the meantime a clearer description of the error came to my mind: > > Only the first letter of the search argument is considered for matching > the search target. Checking on a NetBSD machine, they have the same problem. Given you have a fix for the problem, do you know what actually caused it to manifest with the changes I brought in? I'll incorporate your change, or a modified version of it, later this evening. > Thanks for looking at it anyway :-) No problem. Normally I don't have the time to read the GNATs database, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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