Bug: "grep -P" crash when grepping a file containing a byte 0xF5

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:36:10PM -0500, Bill Meier wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I recently noticed that cygwin 'grep -P' crashes when grepping over a 
>file which contains a byte 0xF5.
>
>
>
>$ od -t x1 tfx.txt
>0000000 f5
>0000001
>
>$ grep -P "a" tfx.txt
>Aborted (core dumped)
>
>$ grep -E "a" tfx.txt
>
>$

This seems to be fixed in the just-released version of grep soon making
its way to a mirror near you.

cgf

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