[PATCH v7 1/3] posix: regcomp(): clear RE_DOT_NOT_NULL
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Mon Jun 12 13:11:03 GMT 2023
On 6/11/23 20:47, наб wrote:
> The POSIX API always stops at first NUL so there's no change for that.
>
> The BSD REG_STARTEND API, with its explicit range, can include NULs
> within that range, and those NULs are matched with . and [^].
>
> Heretofor, for a string of "a\0c", glibc would match "[^q]c", but not
> ".c". This is both inconsistent and nonconformant to BSD REG_STARTEND.
>
> With this patch, they're identical like you'd expect, and the
> tst-reg-startend.c: ..c: a^@c: no match$
> failure is removed.
>
> Another approach would be to remove it from _RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_COMMON,
> but it's unclear to me what the custody chain is like for that and what
> other regex APIs glibc offers that could be affected by this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
These changes are being made to sources shared between gnulib and glibc.
As the files are listed in SHARED-SOURCES we cannot easily accept changes to them
since they should be shared with gnulib.
Would you be willing to disclaim these changes or assign copyright?
> ---
> No changes (rebased cleanly); full resend.
>
> posix/regcomp.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/posix/regcomp.c b/posix/regcomp.c
> index 12650714c0..a928ef6c2d 100644
> --- a/posix/regcomp.c
> +++ b/posix/regcomp.c
> @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ regcomp (regex_t *__restrict preg, const char *__restrict pattern, int cflags)
> {
> reg_errcode_t ret;
> reg_syntax_t syntax = ((cflags & REG_EXTENDED) ? RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_EXTENDED
> - : RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC);
> + : RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC) & ~RE_DOT_NOT_NULL;
>
> preg->buffer = NULL;
> preg->allocated = 0;
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
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