Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/53885; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, jdolecek%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost, 
    Martijn Dekker <martijn%inlv.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 08:47:52 +0800 (PST)

 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...  :)
 
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