Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:34:05 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@engr.scu.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/105221: grep(1): `grep -w -F ""` issue Message-ID: <20081009073405.GA96899@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200810090700.m9970DNZ048308@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200810090700.m9970DNZ048308@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:00:13AM +0000, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > A proposed fix then, is to immediately fail the search for a match > when grep is called with this combination of options if the > string to match is zero-length (and thus, trivially does not match > the non-empty input!). grep should be updated to the latest GNU variant already long ago, lost of bugs are fixed there, but with all that new snv stuff I not have enough time to deal with. BTW, and sort too. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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