bug#23716: [PATCH 5/6] grep: remove unnecessary dirdesc variable.
Closing this bug report as the patch was installed in June. Thanks.
bug#23717: [PATCH 6/6] grep: do pagesize initialization and buffer allocation earlier
Thanks, I see this one was also installed in June and so am closing the bug report. I noticed that the old code and the new both have some glitches with respect to large page sizes, so I installed the attached further patch to fix them. I've never used grep on a machine with 2 GiB pages, but s