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Re: [PATCH] build: fix a subtly twisted "make distcheck" failure


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: fix a subtly twisted "make distcheck" failure
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:47:33 -0700
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On 06/05/2012 03:35 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> What if the regex matches \0?

I'm thinking to change the default behavior of grep,
so that \0 is treated as if it ended a line (like
newline) when reading binary files.  This will be
more useful in practice, not least because it fixes
the denial-of-service problem.  POSIX allows this.



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