On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 03:37:33 +0000 (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 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 make them internally consistent and > >dependable (and reproducible), even at the expense of compatibilitly > >with GNU's implementations. > > 14 (libc, TRE, grep, nvi, cvs, libiberty x 6, gettext, diffutils, > less) 15 if you count awk. Why wouldn't I count awk? Gah. I was under the naive impression that re_format and libc ruled except for GNU utilities. --jkl
