On Aug 12 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 11 15:07, Jim Burwell wrote: > > 64 bit egrep gets a segfault and dumps core when it opens binary files: > > Confirmed. This isn't exactly about binary files, but rather grep > stumbles over Cygwin/Newlib's UTF-16 surrogate pair handling here. > > To trigger this problem, three circumstances must conincide: > > - you have to use a UTF-8 locale like en_US.UTF-8, > - you have to use grep's -i option, > - and you have to hit a file with a UTF-8 sequence which translates to > a surrogate. > > I'm looking into a patch to handle this uncommon situation and try to > send it upstream.
I added UTF-16 surrogate handling to the -i option and uploaded a grep-2.14-2 package to the 64 bit release. Please give it a tests. If it works for you, I'll send the patch upstream. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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