calendar, egrep, and unmonitored reads

[George Robbins]

In article <1990Sep29.031633.5070 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kbesrl at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Thompson ) writes:
> castor at embezzle.stanford.edu (Castor Fu) writes:
> 
> >I discovered today, (maybe you did to. . . . ) that the stock 
> >egrep on ultrix 3.1 has a small (256??) limit on it's pattern buffer.

This was something that was broken by attempts to make Ultrix 3.x regular
expression processing 8-bit clean.  It is supposedly fixed in Ultrix 4.0.
I don't know if a patch was ever made available for Ultrix 3.x.

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