On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 23:31:07 -0700
Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On 6 June 2016 at 18:35, James K. Lowden
> wrote:
> > Back in 2009, Matthias-Christian Ott ported Ville Laurikari's regex
> It was brought into base. The USE_LIBTRE definitions causes things to
> happen in libc if it's defined.
I'm not
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 03:37:33 + (UTC)
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> Awk implements its own (see b.c) (but that does not implement the
> API).
Thank you. A nice bit of code, too, btw.
> >As far as I know, we have 3 regex definitions in base: GNU grep,
> >NetBSD sed (with reg
On 6 June 2016 at 18:35, 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.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/08/03/msg002477
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
