$ echo x | awk '/[[:cntrl:]]/'
x
The NUL character in cntrl class truncates the pattern, and an empty
pattern matches anything. The patch skips NUL as a quick fix.
PR: 195792
Submitted by: kdrakehp@zoho.com
Approved by: bwk@cs.princeton.edu (the author)
MFC after: 3 days
Instead of changing the whole course to another POSIX-permitted way
for consistency and uniformity I decide to completely ignore missing
regex fucntionality and focus on fixing bugs in what we have now,
too many small obstacles we have choicing other way, counting ports.
Corresponding libc changes are backed out in r302824.
I'll try to keep the change very minimal to not touch contribed code much.
I'll send it upstream when it will be merged to main branches,
but we need the change right now here.
- Make one-true-awk respect locale's collating order in [a-z]
bracket expressions, until a more complete fix (like handing
BREs) is ready.
- Don't require a space between -[fv] and its argument.
