Re: [PATCH 16/17] grep: remove check_multibyte_string, fix non-UTF8 missed match

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/14/2010 05:10 PM, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When a line matches with kwset and fails in the is_mb_middle test,
> bug#23814 is caused by not checking following of the line (Never looks
> for the second match for the line.) .
>
> In this case, by matching kwset for following, the bug will be solved.
>
> For a simple pattern which doesn't contain the wild-card and the
> repetition expression, I think that dfaexec is unnecessary and only
> kwsexec is needed as well as fgrep.

All true however, with enough heavy changes going into grep, I preferred 
a slightly suboptimal patch for what is after all a very rare case.

Paolo