libregex library

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 19 17:26:28 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Ben Mesander wrote:
> 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?

They have differing API's and GNU utilities consume the GNU API not the
Henry Spencer standard one.  So we have to have both.
 
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