Re: Grep

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen Larcombe" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:01:21 -0700
> 
> I am using djgpp dos version of grep, and just tried using on a new computer 
> running Windows XP
> 
> When I pipe an out put from one command to grep as follows:
> 
> C:> another_command | grep string
> Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
> General Protection Fault at eip=000116e3
> eax=fff80000 ebx=fff80000 ecx=000002af edx=fff90000 esi=00000058 edi=0000b01
> ebp=000a6930 esp=000a691c program=C:\DJGPP\BIN\GREP.EXE

What version of Grep is that, and when was it compiled?  My copy of
DJGPP-compiled Grep 2.4 doesn't crash on XP.  Perhaps there's
something special about your specific another_command? or does Grep
crash for any command piped into it?

> Any ideas what is happening, or where I should look for a newer version of 
> grep?

In general, for XP, get the latest binaries from the DJGPP site, they
were compiled with a library which works around bugs in the XP DPMI
server.  Or get the native Windows port from the Gnuwin32 site.