Re: grep: problem with invalid argument to --context

[Alain Magloire]

Bonjour Daniel

> 
> When working with the swedish transaltion of grep i stumbled across this:
> 
> An obvious fix to an obvious problem in grep-2.5e.
> 
> Problem:
> 
> when grep is called with --context=NON-NUMERIC a simple bug in the
> parametrs to error() causes grep to segfault.

Yes, this was corrected in the repository.
The code is available through
anonymous CVS.
$ cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs login
Password: [just hit enter]
$ cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs checkout grep


Thanks.

> 
> Fix: 
> 
> diff -ur grep-2.5e.vanilla/src/grep.c grep-2.5e/src/grep.c
> --- grep-2.5e.vanilla/src/grep.c      Sun Mar  4 20:31:00 2001
> +++ grep-2.5e/src/grep.c      Sat Jul 28 19:30:10 2001
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
>        && 0 <= (*out = value)
>        && *out == value))
>      {
> -      error (2, 0, "%s: %s: %s\n", str, _("invalid context length 
> argument"));
> +      error (2, 0, "%s: %s", str, _("invalid context length argument"));
>      }
>  }
>  
> 
> cheers
> /daniel
> 
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