Re: [patch #7132] Small change to grep-2.6

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/25/2010 10:17 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> > This problem is easily reproduced with both -w option and backref.
>
> Hi Norihiro,
>
> Thank you for the example.
>
> To illustrate the problem on the command line, I did this:
>
>      $ printf '%s\n' baa aax aa 'aa rest' zz | src/grep -Ew '(a)\1'; echo
>      aaaa
>
> Note how it prints only the matching text, but neither
> the newline of line 3 nor the " rest\n" of line 4.
>
> Does one of your patches fix that problem?
> None of Paolo's 3-patch series appears to do so.

Yes, it wasn't included in the series due to lack of a testcase.

Paolo