OpenSSH 2.4.0 patch call..

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tim Rice wrote:

> SCO Open Server 3 doesn't have regex libraries.
> 
> I saw in the ChangeLog file
> 20001014
>  - (bal) Corrected mistake in INSTALL in regards to GNU rx library
>  - (bal) Add support for GNU rx library for those lacking regexp support
> 
> Do we want to require installing GNU rx on systems without regex support?
> Or do we want to add regex to the openssh code base like in HylaFAX?

I am not keen to add regex code to portable OpenSSH.

The regex code is fairly large (~100k) and, unlike the other
replacement code that has already been included, is readily available
in library form. You can use GNU regex or the PCRE library[1]

-d

[1] ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/

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