bug#17246: grep-2.19 planning

[Paul Eggert]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> It is also a regression that error messages will show "grep: error xyz"
> rather than "egrep: error xyz".

That's a feature, not a bug :-).  It reminds people to use 'grep' rather 
than an obsolete extension.

> Please provide a testcase for your bug, I'm not sure whether I
> understand it.

Ouch, in looking back at it I now see that *I* misunderstood it.  You're 
correct: that "if" statement avoided the problem that I saw.  The point 
remains that the previous code was Too Complicated, though.

Perhaps in penance I should write the little C wrappers I was talking about.