bug#16586: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering wrote:
This bug is still present in upstream libpcre version 8.35.

Ah, sorry, I thought it was Debian-specific.  I've reopened grep bug 
16586 <http://bugs.gnu.org/16586>, and have forwarded it to Philip 
Hazel, who currently has the PCRE bug assigned, according to 
<http://bugs.exim.org/1468>.