Re: bin/153257: [libc] [patch] regex(3): Add support for \< and

The following reply was made to PR bin/153257; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/153257: [libc] [patch] regex(3): Add support for \< and \> word delimiters
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:27:01 -0700 (PDT)

 This patch is debatable: while it supports better the Solaris
 and GNU behaviour, this is not something required by POSIX.

 The behaviour is also used by some scripts in the ports tree
 to distinguish between GNU sed and BSD sed.

 For now I guess it may be better if we don't apply this
 patch and let a future regex replacement (TRE?) decide
 if it supports the extensions or not.

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