Bug#699632: Mawk eats RAM with .+* regex

2013-02-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 699632 + upstream fixed-upstream quit Hi Thomas, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 06:14:14PM +, François Wendling wrote: >> I have found a bug in mawk. I wanted to strip HTML tags the dirty way, and >> wanted to make a perlish non greedy match (i since discovered it wasn'

Bug#699632: Mawk eats RAM with .+* regex

2013-02-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 06:14:14PM +, François Wendling wrote: > Package: mawk > Version: 1.3.3-17 > Severity: normal ... > I have found a bug in mawk. I wanted to strip HTML tags the dirty way, and > wanted to make a perlish non greedy match (i since discovered it wasn't > possible...), but o

Bug#699632: Mawk eats RAM with .+* regex

2013-02-02 Thread François Wendling
Package: mawk Version: 1.3.3-17 Severity: normal Hi, I have found a bug in mawk. I wanted to strip HTML tags the dirty way, and wanted to make a perlish non greedy match (i since discovered it wasn't possible...), but on the way, i made a typo and executed this : # You don't want to run this