grep 2.5d -f option problem

[Greg Louis]

  There is apparently some sort of a problem in grep 2.5d with the -f
  option.  In the sequence of commands shown below, logcheck.ignore
  is a file containing a series of regexps, and version 2.5b correctly
  picks out the non-matching lines with the i, v and f options as
  shown.  Version 2.5d, however, finds no matches and outputs the
  entire file.  Both were compiled with the same options on the same
  Linux machine with egcs-2.91.66 and linked against glibc-2.2.

# egrep --version; egrep -ivf /dyna/usr/local/etc/logcheck.ignore \
> /dyna/var/log/messages | wc -l
egrep (GNU grep) 2.5b

Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

    313
# ./egrep --version; ./egrep -ivf /dyna/usr/local/etc/logcheck.ignore
/dyna/var/log/messages | wc -l
egrep (GNU grep) 2.5d

Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

   1075
# wc -l /dyna/var/log/messages
   1075 /dyna/var/log/messages


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