GNU bug report logs - #18266
grep -P and invalid exits with error

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 18455

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>, Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: 18266 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 758105 <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: bug#18266: Bug#758105: bug#18266: Bug#758105: bug#18266: grep -P and invalid exits with error
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:36:28 -0700

Santiago wrote:
> Another solution would be to don't check if binary files are valid
> (passing PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK to pcre_exec), but I don't know if that'd
> avoid security holes

It wouldn't.  (We already tried it.)
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