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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: Plain text matching with regex: RE_PLAIN |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:09:55 -0600 |
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On 09/14/2010 06:27 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
The attached patch adds a new syntax flag, RE_PLAIN.
Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex meta-characters that occur in the string, at which point you get the same effect without a new flag? And while the addition of a new flag may be worthwhile, I think that the divergence between glibc and gnulib is already too far; you need to get this approved in glibc before we go adding it to gnulib and hurt our chances of merging yet another difference between the two code bases.
-- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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