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Re: [PATCH 2/2] regex: test for buffer overrun
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:46:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regex: test for buffer overrun
- References: <5108C001 dot 4010409 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <5108C069 dot 9030802 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <878v53mwnm dot fsf at spindle dot srvr dot nix> <5164D45F dot 9020309 at redhat dot com>
On 10 Apr 2013, Carlos O'Donell verbalised:
> On 03/31/2013 11:11 AM, Nix wrote:
>> Perhaps this failure is known, but I would say that all is not yet well
>> in the state of regex.
>
> All is *not* well in the state of regex. It is a known issue that there
> are some regex bugs and gnulib has tests for them. Andreas' fix only
> prevents the crash. The actual regex bug remains.
That's what I feared.
I'd like to say "I'll dig in to this", but early house-move hell is
consuming a lot of my time... all I can say is this is annoying me
unreasonably given how small it is so it is relatively likely that I
will dig in to this sooner or later.
(Compiling the regex code into some gnulib users is bloating them by
>50% which is annoying. And they don't get any later fixes without
a recompilation which is just as annoying. :) )
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