On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 07:25:06PM +0200, Peter Oberndorfer wrote: > > Thanks for the report. I'd still like to pursue using a regex library > > that does not require NUL-termination, but I've been distracted by other > > things. I'm going to hold back my copy-to-a-NUL-buffer patch for now and > > see if I can get to the regex thing this week. > > > are there any news regarding this problem? > The crash seems to still exist in the current version 1.8.3 and master. Sorry, no, this got dropped due to lack of time. I _think_ it is as simple as just tweaking the Makefile to unconditionally build against the compat/ regex library, and then tweaking callsites as appropriate to use the GNU-specific interface that takes buf/len instead of a NUL-terminated string. But there may be some hidden complexities to it. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html