[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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