Re: grep bug involving carets within lists

[Gilbert C Healton]

>I am guessing the problem resides in the libc regular expression
>library.  I am currently using glibc 2.2.5 and glibc 2.3.1 with no
>problem.

Sounds likely.

I know I am using a somewhat older system, but till I
get a regular job again or find someone I can copy some CDs from I am
going to be stuck with it. I kind of like having a full official
release.

FYI:

    cat /etc/redhat-release
        Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)

    uname -a
        Linux host0 2.4.2-2 #6 Wed Jul 10 09:41:39 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

    ldd `which grep`
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x4002d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

    lib-config --version glib
        1.2.9

    ldd -v /lib/i686/libc.so.6
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

        Version information:
        /lib/i686/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

    ldd -v /lib/ld-linux.so.2
        statically linked

        Version information:
        /lib/libNoVersion.so.1:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
        /lib/i686/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1.1) =>
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.3) =>
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) =>
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2) =>
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) =>

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:

>Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Gilbert C Healton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >     grep --version
>> >     grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
>> >
>> > Any use of caret (^) within [] list processing results in matches.
>>
>> I can't reproduce this with grep 2.5.1; apparently, it's been fixed.
>
>I can't reproduce this with grep 2.4.2.  I don't think the problem is
>in grep.
>
>I am guessing the problem resides in the libc regular expression
>library.  I am currently using glibc 2.2.5 and glibc 2.3.1 with no
>problem.
>
>Bob
>