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Summary: egrep hangs on \x{N} for 0x6000<=N<=0x6989
Project: grep
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Thu 02/16/06 at 09:04
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
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Details:
In egrep 2.5.1 under Linux 2.4.5 on i686
expressions of the form \x{N} where 6000 <= N <= 6989 (hex), e.g.
\x{6581}, cause egrep to hang with 100% CPU usage. This does not happen with
grep or fgrep. This is not a joke.
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