"fgrep -w" may miss matches

[Solar Designer]

Hi,

There was/is a bug in GNU grep that causes "fgrep -w" to sometimes miss
matches.  We've had a fix for this (by Pavel Kankovsky) in Owl for a
year now.  Please see grep-2.5.1a-owl-fgrep-w.diff at:

        http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/grep/

grep-2.5.1a-owl-fgrep-w.diff includes comments with problem description
and a testcase demonstrating the problem.

I am sorry that I do not have time to test a recent development version
of grep for this.  I figured it would be better to report this anyway
rather than to sit on it.  I've also notified other distro vendors:

        http://www.openwall.com/lists/xvendor/2008/04/18/1

Thanks,

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