Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> writes: > That regexp was copied verbatim from my codesearch search box. Did you > forget to switch the dropdown to "regex"?
> The shadow package contains about ten of those constructs, for example > shadow_1:4.11.1+dfsg1-2/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch > - fprintf (stderr, "%s: line %d: mkdir failed\n", > - Prog, line); > - else if (chown (newpw.pw_dir, > - newpw.pw_uid, newpw.pw_gid)) > - fprintf (stderr, "%s: line %d: chown > failed\n", This specific example is a false positive, though, correct? I think you want to filter out hits that include a parenthesis, since those are likely to be calls to the C library function, which doesn't have this issue. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
