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Message-ID: <20080418211336.GB32247@wo.int.altlinux.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:13:36 +0400
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU "fgrep -w" may miss matches
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:31:34PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> There's a bug in GNU grep that causes "fgrep -w" to sometimes miss
> matches. We've had a fix for this (by Pavel Kankovsky) in Owl for a
> year now. Please see grep-2.5.1a-owl-fgrep-w.diff at:
>
> http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/grep/
>
> grep-2.5.1a-owl-fgrep-w.diff includes comments with problem description
> and a testcase demonstrating the problem.
>
> Is GNU grep being maintained upstream these days?
There is a
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/grep/AUTHORS?root=grep&view=markup
file updated 5 months ago; it says:
Stepan Kasal <...> maintains GNU grep since Feb 2004.
Tony Abou-Assaleh <...> maintains GNU grep since Oct 2007.
I'm not sure that this grep was packaged in distributions, though.
--
ldv
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