From d43a26d474bca74f27191b209ca26ef0b827d784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Strobl Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:22:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] MFC: r197357 Describe how other systems treat this case. --- tools/regression/usr.bin/sed/multitest.t | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/regression/usr.bin/sed/multitest.t b/tools/regression/usr.bin/sed/multitest.t index fefc70b02420..2d808916f9a6 100644 --- a/tools/regression/usr.bin/sed/multitest.t +++ b/tools/regression/usr.bin/sed/multitest.t @@ -438,7 +438,11 @@ u2/g' lines1 # This is a matter of interpretation # POSIX 1003.1, 2004 says "Within the BRE and the replacement, # the BRE delimiter itself can be used as a *literal* character - # if it is preceded by a backslash + # if it is preceded by a backslash" + # SunOS 5.1 /usr/bin/sed and Mac OS X follow the literal POSIX + # interpretation. + # GNU sed version 4.1.5 treats \[ as the beginning of a character + # set specification (both with --posix and without). mark '8.19' ; sed 's/l/[/' lines1 | $SED -e 's[\[.[X[' mark '8.20' ; sed 's/l/[/' lines1 | $SED -e 's[\[.[X\[[' }