From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 02:45:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (docolon): Don't use deceptively-named RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC -- it recognizes
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_12j~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d2a9041f9f5d24567ede5c26ace274c864eeb76;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(docolon): Don't use deceptively-named RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC -- it recognizes
non-BRE \?, \+, and \|.  Instead, use RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_MINIMAL_BASIC.
---

diff --git a/src/expr.c b/src/expr.c
index 2f1970da8a..f6e13aa215 100644
--- a/src/expr.c
+++ b/src/expr.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ docolon (VALUE *sv, VALUE *pv)
   re_buffer.allocated = 2 * len;
   re_buffer.buffer = (unsigned char *) xmalloc (re_buffer.allocated);
   re_buffer.translate = 0;
-  re_syntax_options = RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_BASIC;
+  re_syntax_options = RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_MINIMAL_BASIC;
   errmsg = re_compile_pattern (pv->u.s, len, &re_buffer);
   if (errmsg)
     error (2, 0, "%s", errmsg);