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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:10:50 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] regex: support non-greedy quantifiers

* Julien Ramseier <j.ramseier@...il.com> [2016-06-16 17:33:48 +0200]:
> > Le 13 mars 2016 à 12:06, Julien Ramseier <j.ramseier@...il.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > Here's a tiny patch to enable non-greedy regex quantifiers.
> > This is not specified by POSIX, but I think it's a useful
> > extension, and all the code for supporting it is already present.
...
> 
> Ping?

musl is conservative about its regex syntax since extensions
are not portable across impementations so users cannot rely
on them.

i think this extension is not available in glibc and other
posix regex implementations either, it's a perl invention,
so it would be wrong to add it to musl, those who want perl
syntax can use the pcre lib.

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