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Message-ID: <20080419161222.GN55862@linsec.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:12:22 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...sec.ca>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU "fgrep -w" may miss matches
* [2008-04-18 22:31:34 +0400] Solar Designer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>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?
Just tested this on Mandriva 2008.1 (with grep 2.5.3) and it does the
right thing. Taking a quick peek at the spec, we're heavily patched
with Debian patches, so one of them is probably taking care of this (I'm
thinking probably 64-egf-speedup.patch which is messing around in the
same area as your patch is). Looking at the source, this isn't
upstream.
Looking at the ChangeLog for this version:
2007-06-29 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@...linux.org>
* all files: GPLv3
...
Maybe Bernhard is the one maintaining grep now? He's the only one I see
making commits (a whole 3 in the changelog) since 2005 when Charles
Levert committed some stuff.
--
Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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