On 18 August 2010 08:52, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote: > Syntax options are anyway not going to be supported by the POSIX API,
That's why I mentioned extensions. glibc has many GNU extensions to POSIX APIs, both in the form of extended semantics of existing APIs and new-but-similar APIs; I was wondering whether it might be more profitable in the long run to add functionality such as backwards searching and syntax options as extensions to the POSIX APIs rather than force developers to choose either POSIX or GNU (or, more likely, add the missing functionality to a more commonly-used package such as PCRE). -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
