On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:51:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/165603 for context. The summary is
> that apropos segfaults inside regexec() when using glibc 2.3.1 in a
> locale other than C. To reproduce, get
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/bug165603_index.bt.bz2,
> uncompress, install as ~/man/index.bt, 'export LC_ALL=en_US' (or
> some other non-C locale installed on the system), and run 'apropos
> -M ~/man xkb'.

Excellent!  Thanks for the test case.  There have already been further
patches to the regex in CVS, so I'll check this against the newest
version and report upstream if necessary.

Thanks for getting this!

-- 
learning from failures is nice in theory...
but in practice, it sucks :)
 - Wolfgang Jaehrling


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