On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:35:25PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> As far as I know, we have 3 regex definitions in base: GNU grep, NetBSD
> sed (with regex(3), defined by re_format(7)), and NetBSD awk. It would
> be an improvement IMO to use one implementation for all utilities in
> base, to
In article <20160606213525.46a4365b2c8cef8207266...@schemamania.org>,
James K. Lowden wrote:
>Back in 2009, Matthias-Christian Ott ported Ville Laurikari's regex
>library, apparently with the intention of replacing the one in base,
>originally from Henry Spencer.
>
> http://mail-index.netb
Back in 2009, Matthias-Christian Ott ported Ville Laurikari's regex
library, apparently with the intention of replacing the one in base,
originally from Henry Spencer.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/08/03/msg002477.html
What happened? Other than the announcement, I fi
