Thanks for your report. This is reproducible in Intrepid. I suspect that this is one of those multibyte bugs of grep.
Does it work correctly with the following command: LANG=C grep -w alloca kernel/pid.c Can you post the output of the command : locale Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: grep (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- grep -w doesn't always grab whole words https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274221 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs