GNU bug report logs - #29668
grep: Fatal problem with (big) file

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Package: grep;

Reported by: pg <pasi.vitsa <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:03:02 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 #29 received at 29668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 33552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 29668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pg <pasi.vitsa <at> yahoo.com>,
 Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, Jason Franklin <jrf <at> elitemail.org>
Subject: Re: grep patches for "Binary file FOO matches" glitches
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:04:55 -0700

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:46 AM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Attached are two related 'grep' patches, one prompted by Bug#33552 "Possible bug
> with handling -I option" and the other by Bug#29668 "grep: Fatal problem with
> (big) file". Although I'd normally install these on grep master, Jim has started
> the ball rolling on the next grep release so I'll cc this to him to see whether
> these patches can be squeezed in before the next release.

Nice! Thank you for resolving those.
The first one did indeed simplify numerous tests.
Both look fine and seem uncontroversial, so please go ahead and push them.
I'll probably update to latest gnulib this evening and then make a new snapshot.
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