On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> I have fixed the regex-oriented problem with the attached patch [...] > > I confirm that this patch (applied to sys-apps/grep-2.23 in Gentoo) > fixes the problem for me. Thanks for checking. I reread the patch I pushed and was dismayed to see I'd left in a debugging statement. This additional patch removes the offending line (harmless unless you have a writable directory named /t):