standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Tim Robbins <tjr at 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
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