Re: [SEToolkit-developer] Enhancement: Upgrade expression operator from Basic to Extended Regular Expressions.

[Jon C. <can...@gm...>]

> Am 17.08.2007 um 14:47 schrieb Jon Craig:
> > I've had several occasions where basic RE just couldn't do what I
> > needed and I've longed for full extended REs.
>
> I am interested in what those occasions are?

Biggest one was work I was doing with workollator.  I wanted the match
to expand to things like multiple users. So the use of grouping with
or "(tom|dick|harry)" would be handy.  Also, trying to match multiple
things in ps_args when building workloads.

> > That was my initial
> > impetus to getting the SE Toolkit environment to build.  What are
> > others thoughts on using regcomp/regexec over compile/step to enable
> > extended regular expressions.  I've got a patch that implements this.
>
> Please submit the patch as 'gdiff -Naur' at
>   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
> atid=928691&group_id=189279&func=browse
> For integration checks in autoconf for regex.h are needed and should be
> honoured.

I'll submit the patch.  I noticed that the kstat module is using
regcomp over compile, so the binary is already using the other
library/functions in a different spot.  This is my first work on a
"shared" project using sourceforge and my first experience using
autoconf/automake, so I'm on a bit of a learning curve.

>
> The gcc problem has been fixed. Everywhere in the code stdarg.h was
> used but in funcs.c :-(
>
Yeah!