Source: nn
Version: 6.7.3-14
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

>From fcf2da3d78718da87c1210bd878f00166261d0c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is>
>Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:45:27 +0000
>Subject: [PATCH] regexp.c: add information to an error message

  Add the file name to an error message and sleep for 5 seconds to give
the user time to read it.

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is>
---
 regexp.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/regexp.c b/regexp.c
index 7116b70..0a08534 100644
--- a/regexp.c
+++ b/regexp.c
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ STATIC int      strcspn(char *, char *);
 regexp         *
 regcomp(char *exp)
 {
+/* caller: action that uses this subroutine, is needed for error messages */
     register regexp *r;
     register char  *scan;
     register char  *longest;
@@ -1237,7 +1238,8 @@ strcspn(char *s1, char *s2)
 void
 regerror(char *s)
 {
+    msg("%s: regexp error: %s", __FILE__, s);
+    user_delay(5); /* Make messages readable */
 
-    msg("regexp: %s", s);
     /* NOTREACHED */
 }
-- 
2.30.1



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.9-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), 
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason

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