Re: Regex question - maybe devfsd should use REG_EXTENDED

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Ward writes:
> On 15 October 2001, Richard Gooch said:
> > Cough! As if I know! The regular subexpression code was contributed by
> > Chris Rankin. I assume he tested it, since I think he used it. Check
> > the devfsd.conf(5) man page for examples of regular subexpression use.
> > In that page it tells you what you need to know to get it working. I
> > won't tell you the answer, because I want you to read the manual :-)
> 
> A-ha!  So it's not even a doc bug, just my thick skull.  D'ohh!

Well, let's call it a doc mis-feature, since there wasn't a pointer in
the place you most needed it.

> May I propose a tiny little patch to the devfsd.8 man page?
> 
> --- devfsd-1.3.18/devfsd.8      Wed Oct 17 20:29:57 2001
> +++ devfsd-1.3.18-hacked/devfsd.8       Wed Oct 17 20:27:58 2001
> @@ -293,4 +293,6 @@
>  \fI\\2\fP to refer to the second, and so on.  (Use \fI\\\\\fP to
>  include an actual backslash.)
> +.PP
> +See devfsd.conf(5) for examples of regular expression substitution.
>  
>  .SH SIGNALS
> 
> Hope I've got my *roff syntax right.  This should reduce future
> confusion.

Indeed. Applied. Thanks.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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