A patch for regex.c

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Aug 1 17:26:00 GMT 2000


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

> 2000-07-13  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* posix/regex.c (re_max_failures): Set to 4000.

I've applied this patch for now though I'm sure we'll get complains
from some people.  The problem is that a threaded application using
regex will run into stack limit problems without it.  Maybe we'll lift
the limit once the stack handling is dynamic or the regex functions
are rewritten.

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