Re: sed uses libc6's regex

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 14:07, Herbert Xu wrote:
> sed uses the regex implementation from libc6, which needs to be
> replaced withh a saner version from gawk, grep, or even better
> mawk + support for POSIX character classes.

FWIW, libc 2.3 has a different regex implementation which is reportedly
faster.

p.