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>Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:26:19 -0400
>From: Rick Beebe <richard.beebe@yale.edu>
>Subject: bug(?) in swish regex
>Organization: Yale University School of Medicine
>
>I've had regular unexplained crashes in Swish 1.3.1 running under Digital
>Unix 4.0D. The crash is always a segmentation fault in matchARegex. After a
>bunch of experimentation (I haven't done anything with regex before) I added
>regfree calls to the routine and that fixed _most_ of the crashes. I'm not
>sure why it should make a difference--I would have thought re would be freed
>when leaving the routine--but it did. It still crashes occasionally--once
>every three or four days--but it never used to even make it through a night
>before.
>
>*** string.c	Fri Apr  9 11:13:34 1999
>--- string.c.orig	Fri Dec 11 13:33:31 1998
>***************
>*** 599,622 ****
>  /*---------------------------------------------------------*/
>  /* Match a regex and a string */
>  
>! int matchARegex( char *str, char *pattern)
>  {
>  	int  status;
>! 	regex_t	re;
>! 
>  	status = regcomp(&re, pattern, REG_EXTENDED);
>! 	if ( status != 0) {
>!       	regfree(&re);
>  		return 0;
>!   	}
>! 
>  	status = regexec(&re,str,(size_t)0,NULL,0);
>! 	if (status != 0) {
>!       	regfree(&re);
>  		return 0;
>!    	}
>! 
>!    	regfree(&re);
>  	return 1;
>  }
>  /*-----------------------------------------------------*/
>--- 599,617 ----
>  /*---------------------------------------------------------*/
>  /* Match a regex and a string */
>  
>! int matchARegex( char *str, char *pattern) 
>  {
>  	int  status;
>! 	regex_t re;
>! 	
>  	status = regcomp(&re, pattern, REG_EXTENDED);
>! 	if ( status != 0)
>  		return 0;
>! 	
>  	status = regexec(&re,str,(size_t)0,NULL,0);
>! 	if (status != 0)
>  		return 0;
>! 	
>  	return 1;
>  }
>  /*-----------------------------------------------------*/
>
>
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>
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