ietf-nntp wildmat: A reason for allowing \ in classes

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

> Hm.  It just occurred to me that my implementation currently doesn't do
> the right thing with a comma inside a character class since it wants all
> commas to be escaped with a backslash if they don't end a wildmat
> pattern.  This is obviously less than ideal.  It's going to take a
> significant rework to fix that bug; I'll take a look at that tonight and
> see how hard it will be.

Never mind.  That was easy to fix with only a minimal slowdown.

wildmat.c updated, and six more test cases added to the test suite.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>