On 2014-08-14 09:15:58 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > That commit was necessary to avoid undefined behavior in libpcre. We can't > simply undo the commit (unless you want to reintroduce security holes into > grep :-). The current behavior is the best we can do, unless someone fixes > libpcre (which doesn't appear to be likely), or unless someone takes the > time to write code in grep to work around the problem. > > One way forward is suggested in <http://bugs.gnu.org/17245#43>. No doubt > there are others. Can you suggest a volunteer to take this on?
Discarding input lines with invalid UTF-8 sequences is not OK. IMHO, it would be better to replace invalid UTF-8 sequences by zero bytes before passing them to libpcre. Is it allowed to do that in Pexecute()? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
