Comment 57 for bug 7906

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:22:39 +0100
From: Tim Waugh <email address hidden>
To: Nicolas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: grep hanging with -Fw and an empty pattern

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Nicolas Fran=E7ois wrote:

> Changing the 'while (1)' loop to a 'while (len)' loop in search.c fix this
> issue. However, I don't know if this is correct or optimal (I don't know
> what should happen if we enter the loop with len>0 and len is then
> decreased to 0; Maybe this should also be catched earlier).
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> Does it seems correct to you ?

Yes, looks correct to me. Thanks.

Tim.
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