[resending also to the correct bug address] > Subject: GNU grep-2.16-1.mga4 , grep-2.16 from sources and grep from git > master HEAD get stuck during an LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 search inside a short > binary file > Hi all, > > after I save the attached file as 1.dat , I see that grep -iP on '^Subject:' > or on '^S' gets stuck in the en_US.UTF-8 locale. It is fine in pcregrep and in > ack. > > [SHELL] > shlomif@telaviv1:~$ time LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > ~/apps/TEST-grep-from-git-TO- DEL/bin/grep -iP '^Subject:' < 1.dat ^C > > real 0m4.199s > user 0m4.195s > sys 0m0.003s
Thanks for the report. I am unable to reproduce that on debian unstable using the latest grep: $ env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 time -f %e grep -iP '^S' < /t/1.dat Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.00 [Exit 1] A good way for you to diagnose it is to run under strace or, better, via gdb and find out precisely what code it running when it is making no progress.
