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Re: [PATCH 2/2] regex: test for buffer overrun


On 04/10/2013 09:48 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> I think gnulib's tests/test-regex.c should allow glibc's re_search()
> behavior so that various utilities built --without-included-regex
> wouldn't be penalized by test-regex:

This looks like a good idea, thanks; but shouldn't gnulib/m4/regex.m4
have a similar change?

Even with the change, utilities built --without-included-regex will
still report errors with an unpatched glibc because the tests will
dump core, but I assume that's the intent and that's fine.


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