GNU bug report logs - #18806
grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 18806-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: 18806-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#18806: grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without
 displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:22:07 +0300

Hi all,

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:58:02 +0900
Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> > The optimization was a hack anyway, and these bugs suggest that it's>
> > not a hack worth keeping.
> 
> Thanks.  I improved this hack instead of removal, but it had little
> effect in comparison with your patch, even if `execute' ran for each
> character.
> 

Thank you both for the fix. ♥!

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish


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