[bug-grep] Re: grep: possible bug with option -i

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
   thank you for your bug report.

Please move further discussion to the newly created list address@hidden

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:22:02PM +0300, max wrote:
> I'm reading book named "Mastering Regular Expressions"
> and it pointed me to a bug in GNU egrep.
> 
> I've checked and found that the bug exists in grep 2.5.1
> (Debian Sarge). 
> 
> Also I've found this bug report: 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00005.html>
> and there is no any talkback about this.
> 
> It seems that the bug wasn't fixed.

I have to admit that the bug still exists in the GNU grep, even in the
CVS version.

But I have verified on a Red Hat system, that this is fixed there.

So once we integrate all the Red Hat patches (thanks to Tim Waugh for the
work), we should fix the bug too.
(Or it might be that it's a bug in the regex implementation in GNU libc,
in which case it would depend on a glibc version.)

In any case, the bug won't be forgotten and I'll let you know when it's
resolved.

Sorry that it takes so long,
        Stepan Kasal