bug#19833: grep: internal PCRE error: -27 since updating from 2.16 to 2.21

2015-02-10 Thread Oliver Freyermuth
Dear grep'pers, since I updated from 2.16 to 2.21, several of my "check list of files for bad filenames"-style grep expressions fail like this: grep: internal PCRE error: -27 (one of the failing examples follows at the end of the mail, example filename-list attached) Researching this, I found tha

bug#19833: grep: internal PCRE error: -27 since updating from 2.16 to 2.21

2015-02-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for the bug report and test case. I installed the attached patch, which fixed the bug for me, and which adds a similar test case to the test database. >From 675dccfdaa14ff5513b5b652da8d9286e65b69e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:44:36 -0800 Subject: [