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Re: Replacing usr.bin/grep with the version from FreeBSD



On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:57:03PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Sun Oct 24 2010 at 16:18:05 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 07:13:49PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > > On Sun Oct 24 2010 at 18:01:33 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > any objection to integrate the current BSD grep version from FreeBSD?
> > > > It is supposed to be working for almost all cases as GNU grep
> > > > replacement. It is slower in some cases (which might be fixed by TRE),
> > > > but it should generally be in a much better shape than the current code
> > > > we have.
> > > 
> > > It doesn't handle everything GNU grep handles and it is slower?  For a
> > > user that does not qualify as "much better shape".
> > 
> > The grep currently in our tree is not GNU grep -- is it?
> 
> Dunno what you mean by "our tree", I just know I can spend 2s to find
> out the following:
> 
> pain-rustique:1:~> uname -a
> NetBSD pain-rustique.localhost 5.1_RC4 NetBSD 5.1_RC4 (PAIN-RUSTIQUE) #1: Tue 
> Oct 12 13:37:42 CEST 2010  
> pooka%pain-rustique.localhost@localhost:/objs/kobj/PAIN-RUSTIQUE i386
> pain-rustique:2:~> grep --version
> grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 nb1

Argh!  I'd forgotten we have grep sources in src/usr.bin *and* in src/gnu.

Thor


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