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

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 on the

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't