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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Sep 17 14:21:40 PDT 2004
Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green at freebsd.org> writes:
> Do you happen to know anything about the OpenBSD grep?
a little:
des at dwp ~/projects/openbsd/src/usr.bin/grep% head -5 grep.c
/* $OpenBSD: grep.c,v 1.29 2004/08/05 21:47:33 deraadt Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 1999 James Howard and Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgrav
* All rights reserved.
I don't know how much they've changed it, but I do know that it still
uses whichever regexp engine you happen to have in libc. In our case,
that means good old Henry Spencer. Last I talked to him, he was going
to release a new, improved, and much faster regexp engine, but that
was years ago and I still haven't seen anything come out of it.
DES
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