libregex library

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Nov 18 09:14:17 PST 2004


In the last episode (Nov 18), Ben Mesander said:
> Tim Robbins writes:
>  > What do you think src/lib/libc/regex is?
> 
> Now that's a nice question.
> 
> So why are there two regex libs?

Because GNU programs expect to use the GNU regex, I suppose. The only
apps that pull in libgnuregex are gdb, cvs, diff, and grep.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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