bug#17246: grep-2.19 planning

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 12/04/2014 12:48, Paul Eggert ha scritto:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Can't we just apply the revert that I posted?
>
> That would would reintroduce the bug that I mentioned, so I'd rather not
> do that.  There's a better way forward if we want to continue to support
> the obsoleted Unix interface on platforms lacking a Unix shell, which is
> to have little egrep and fgrep executables that exec grep -E and grep -F.

It is also a regression that error messages will show "grep: error xyz" 
rather than "egrep: error xyz".

Please provide a testcase for your bug, I'm not sure whether I 
understand it.  "fgrep" sets matcher to "fgrep" thanks to the "if" 
statement below:

  if (!m)
    {
      compile = matchers[0].compile;
      execute = matchers[0].execute;
      if (!matchers[1].name)
        matcher = matchers[0].name;
    }

Paolo