On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> I've just reported a new Debian concerning the performance problem. > > > It's not clear from http://bugs.debian.org/761157 that the performance > problem occurs only with -P, but I assume that's what is meant. > > Since this is a performance bug with PCRE, I suggest moving the Debian bug > report to the Debian libpcre3 package. Grep cannot go back to the old way, > which could cause grep to crash, and the bug cannot be fixed in grep because > libpcre3 does not provide a fast way to search arbitrary data that may > include encoding errors. It really is a problem that requires changes to > libpcre3 to fix; grep cannot fix it. > > In the meantime, in order to use 'grep' to search for strings in arbitrary > data, I suggest omitting the '-P'. Also, I suggest using the C locale. > > As the GNU bug 18266 "grep -P and invalid exits with error" has been fixed, > I'm closing that bug report. Please feel free to open a separate GNU bug > report for the performance issue. > > PS. While composing this email I noticed another bug in grep -P and > encoding errors, which I fixed by installing the attached patch.
Thanks for fixing yet another bug, Paul. Would you mind adding a test to trigger that one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
