[Privoxy-devel] PATCH for pcre2 support

[Fabian Keil]

Gagan Sidhu <broly at mac.com> wrote on 2023-06-25 at 15:14:51:

> fabes i did more digging and it seems to be one of the flags
> being passed to the regcomp function in the compile_pattern function of urlmatch.c
> 
> 
> by adding “REG_UNGREEDY” to the regcomp flags, the tests complete with 5 forks (see below).

I can't reproduce this, I still get the crashes with REG_UNGREEDY.

I tried to workaround the crashes by adding a mutex to
get_url_actions() but that didn't help either.

I'm now thinking we may have to use the pcre2_match() API
everywhere instead of using the POSIX interface (regexec() etc.).

Fabian
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