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Bug 171776

Summary: sys-apps/grep-2.5.1a-r1: grep -i --color=auto bug
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Evert <evert.gentoo>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: sirspiritus
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Evert 2007-03-22 12:17:59 UTC
I bumped upon a major bug in grep. The following command makes grep hang!
echo test | grep -Ei --color=auto '^$|test'

The same happens using the non-extended regexp
echo test | grep -i --color=auto '^$\|test'

This bug happens both at home and at work and also on RHEL3 (with grep-2.5.1-24.6) systems.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo test | grep -Ei --color=auto '^$|test'
     or
2. echo test | grep -i --color=auto '^$\|test'

Actual Results:  
test displays in color and grep hangs which can be aborted using ctrl-c.

Expected Results:  
test should display in color and grep should exit immediately after.

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.18.6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:30:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="C"
LINGUAS="de en nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/data/linux/gentoo/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/compile"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac alsa apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vcd vorbis wmf x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-08-16 05:54:00 UTC
grep-2.5.3 fixes this
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-15 06:54:53 UTC
*** Bug 195901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-16 05:17:37 UTC
*** Bug 195901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***