[arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.8-1
Gaetan Bisson
bisson at archlinux.org
Mon May 16 19:02:53 EDT 2011
[2011-05-16 22:05:00 +1000] Allan McRae:
> Upstream NEWS:
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 2.8 (2011-05-13) [stable]
>
> ** Bug fixes
>
> echo c|grep '[c]' would fail for any c in 0x80..0xff, and in many
> locales.
> E.g., printf '\xff\n'|grep "$(printf '[\xff]')" || echo FAIL
> would print FAIL rather than the required matching line.
> [bug introduced in grep-2.6]
>
> grep's interpretation of range expression is now more consistent with
> that of other tools. [bug present since multi-byte character set
> support was introduced in 2.5.2, though the steps needed to reproduce
> it changed in grep-2.6]
>
> grep erroneously returned with exit status 1 on some memory allocation
> failure. [bug present since "the beginning"]
Signoff both.
--
Gaetan
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