Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix a segfault caused by regexec() being called on mmap()ed data

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 6, 2016, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20160906071255.ggsoj2lh2f3kubhj@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwpiqp3ho.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 12:10:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  * We could use <ptr,len> variant of regexp engine as you proposed,
>    which I think is a preferrable solution.  Do people know of a
>    widely accepted implementation that we can throw into compat/ as
>    fallback that is compatible with GPLv2?

Maybe the one already in compat/regex? ;P

I think re_search() the correct replacement function but it's been a while since I've looked into it.

-Peff

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