Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:21:38 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <xzp1xh0a8wt.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040917200345.GT36708@green.homeunix.org> (Brian Fundakowski Feldman's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:03:45 -0400") References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org> <xzphdpwn04v.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040917200345.GT36708@green.homeunix.org>
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> writes: > Do you happen to know anything about the OpenBSD grep? a little: des@dwp ~/projects/openbsd/src/usr.bin/grep% head -5 grep.c /* $OpenBSD: grep.c,v 1.29 2004/08/05 21:47:33 deraadt Exp $ */ /*- * Copyright (c) 1999 James Howard and Dag-Erling Co=EFdan Sm=F8rgrav * All rights reserved. I don't know how much they've changed it, but I do know that it still uses whichever regexp engine you happen to have in libc. In our case, that means good old Henry Spencer. Last I talked to him, he was going to release a new, improved, and much faster regexp engine, but that was years ago and I still haven't seen anything come out of it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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