Re: Initmatch error with 5.51

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:23:51AM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> The problem is with "[." followed by ".]", which denotes POSIX
> collating symbols (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html).
> I'm not sure why this hasn't come up before, but since the order of
> elements inside [] brackets should not matter, I used this
> substitution in vim:
>
> :%s/\[\.\([^]]*\)/[\1./g
>
> ...to swap the period to the right side of the bracketed expression,
> which should eliminate this confusion. Turned out to be about 50
> match lines that changed, though that line (Generic kubiv worm)
> seems to be the only one that could cause this error. Patches for
> 5.51 and svn attached.

Awesome, good detective work. I've applied your patch.

John, what version of libpcre do you have installed on your Arch Linux?
This might have been caused by a library change.

David Fifield
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