Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.26.39-ae3f

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Glad I spotted/fixed a bug in gnulib's dfa.c that would make grep
> infloop. That and the env-vs-returns_ test fix were the only changes
> since the preceding snapshot:
>
> grep snapshot:
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.4 MB
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.26.39-ae3f.tar.xz
>
> Changes in grep since 2.26.37-03b4:
>
> Jim Meyering (2):
>       tests: use "returns_ N env VAR=val ..."
>       grep: fix DFA-induced infloop
>
>
> Changes in gnulib since 2.26.37-03b4:
>
> * gnulib 9cba42f...ca3ca77 (1):
>   > dfa: avoid new infinite loop

I have heard of no new significant problem (thanks to Nelson Beebe and
Assaf Gordon for all of their testing), so expect to make the release
in the next day or two.