Because when -x is used (exact match), then we cannot compile the
regular expression with REG_NOSUB. The manual page regcomp(3) states
in section "Byte offsets":

    Unless REG_NOSUB was set for the compilation of the pattern
    buffer, it is possible to obtain substring match addressing
    information.

The problem was detected on an ARM system with glibc 2.16.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[email protected]>
---
 procps/pgrep.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/procps/pgrep.c b/procps/pgrep.c
index dc7ffff..8daf5b2 100644
--- a/procps/pgrep.c
+++ b/procps/pgrep.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int pgrep_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                bb_show_usage();
 
        if (argv[0])
-               xregcomp(&re_buffer, argv[0], REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB);
+               xregcomp(&re_buffer, argv[0], OPT_ANCHOR ? REG_EXTENDED : 
(REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB));
 
        matched_pid = 0;
        cmd_last = NULL;
-- 
1.8.1.2

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