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grep-3.9 bug: \d matches multibyte digits

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 62267 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#62267: grep-3.9 bug: \d matches multibyte digits
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:17:54 -0700
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 4:12 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 2023-03-19 13:44, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I've pushed your change along with the attached.
> > I'll probably create another snapshot today.
>
> Thanks. I also installed a minor dfa.c change in Gnulib yesterday to
> pacify Oracle Solaris Studio. No big deal since 'grep' builds OK anyway.
>
> I also ran into a weird issue with test-select on Fedora 37 x86-64. It
> appears to be timing dependent and usually doesn't happen. I can't
> reproduce under strace. This is another Gnulib thing and not relevant to
> grep (other than people might report test failures to bug-grep).
>
> I installed into Gnulib the attached patch which shouldn't hurt but
> which I don't know fixes the bug.

Oh! I must have missed getting the latter by bare minutes.
I've just published another snapshot (which does include the dfa.c change)
but not the select one. We'll get it for the release of 3.10




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