Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:19:12 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) Message-ID: <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> (Tim Robbins's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:21:08 %2B1000") References: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041013201820.GA26102@nagual.pp.ru> <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> writes: > The right way to fix this is to use the libc regex code -- trying to fix > awk's antique regex code is a lost cause. Is the libc regex code POSIX-compliant and locale-aware? > Jens, I came up with this patch a while ago and sent it to Andrey in > private mail: > http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/awk-re.diff that is never going to fly... the patch is too intrusive, it will make future upgrades a nightmare. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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