grep bug

[Andrey Chernov]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:02:00PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:48:32AM -0700, Steve Young wrote:
> >   It seems FreeBSD ships with grep 2.4d.  In newer versions it looks 
> > like there
> > is a -D argument you can use to tell it how to handle devices - -Dskip 
> > will skip
> > them and avoid this problem when doing grep -r /.
> 
> I'll take grep upgrade to 2.5

Hmm. I found that 2.5 is too early bird, it even not pass its own tests
suite. I attempt to fix the test fails, but broke other test. Since the
matter is too complex (how grep/egrep/fgrep should do to satisfy both
tradition usage and POSIX), we'll better wait until 2.5.1 or something
like when it will become self-consistent.

Meanwhile I'll probably import 2.4.2 while I already in there (no -D yet).

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