Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> On Jan 18, 11:30pm, jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost (=?UTF-8?B?SmFyb23DrXIgRG9sZcSNZWs=?=) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)
>
> |  Yeah, forgot I have pkg in path - nawk was from pkgsrc. The 'awk' is
> |  the one coming with system, and identifies itself as 20070501.
> |
> |  Got the Apple sources and got repetition pattern locally to work with
> |  nawk 20121220. There is indeed specific added support for this,
> |  conditional upon "Unix2003_compat". I'll think how to integrate it to
> |  make this acceptable for upstream.
>
> I've already merged and committed the code.

I suspect someone(tm) ought to right a new atf test for this...  :)

(I am _not_ volunteering!)


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