[Bug 1547466] Re: grep switches into binary mode while processing a text file
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 27 21:19:10 UTC 2016
** Description changed:
I noticed this staring to happen in Xenial about two days ago. When
running sbuild (or now the buildd, too), the build breaks when trying to
compile a generated file. I traced the problem down to grep suddenly
acting weird. When not having any language set (or a non-UTF8 mode) it
will start printing some lines of a source file and then suddenly end
that by printing "Binary file ... matches".
With the attached file, the difference can be observed (running Xenial):
LANG=C grep -v xxx grant_table.h
and
LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -v xxx grant_table.h
SRU INFORMATION
===============
Upstream fixes:
- - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (but depends on previous patches and is not sufficient by itself)
- - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (tests+doc)
+ - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (but depends on previous patches and is not sufficient by itself)
+ - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (tests+doc)
Test case:
Call grep on a file or a string with non-ASCII characters in the C locale:
- $ echo 'héll☺ ≥x' | LC_ALL=C grep .
+ $ echo 'héll☺ ≥x' | LC_ALL=C grep .
In xenial this just shows "Binary file (standard input) matches", with the fix it should show the actual input string (with some garbled output of course as the UTF-8 chars cannot be displayed in C)
Regression potential: grep is being used in tons of places; during
xenial we had to fix/put a "use grep -a" workaround into a lot of
packages to fix the fallout from grep 2.23 which introduced this. That
said, as a result of "Binary file matches" does not give any more
information than the actual string match, and scripts which get along
with this answer most likely just check the exit code anyway (which does
not change), the risk is bearable.
+
+ We will soon do a test rebuild in yakkety with gcc-6 and grep 2.25, and
+ will sift through the results to identify new FTBFS that are due to grep
+ 2.25. This SRU should not be released until this happens.
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Title:
grep switches into binary mode while processing a text file
Status in grep package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in grep source package in Xenial:
In Progress
Status in grep source package in Yakkety:
Fix Released
Status in grep package in Debian:
Unknown
Bug description:
I noticed this staring to happen in Xenial about two days ago. When
running sbuild (or now the buildd, too), the build breaks when trying
to compile a generated file. I traced the problem down to grep
suddenly acting weird. When not having any language set (or a non-UTF8
mode) it will start printing some lines of a source file and then
suddenly end that by printing "Binary file ... matches".
With the attached file, the difference can be observed (running
Xenial):
LANG=C grep -v xxx grant_table.h
and
LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -v xxx grant_table.h
SRU INFORMATION
===============
Upstream fixes:
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (but depends on previous patches and is not sufficient by itself)
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d8a366218 (tests+doc)
Test case:
Call grep on a file or a string with non-ASCII characters in the C locale:
$ echo 'héll☺ ≥x' | LC_ALL=C grep .
In xenial this just shows "Binary file (standard input) matches", with the fix it should show the actual input string (with some garbled output of course as the UTF-8 chars cannot be displayed in C)
Regression potential: grep is being used in tons of places; during
xenial we had to fix/put a "use grep -a" workaround into a lot of
packages to fix the fallout from grep 2.23 which introduced this. That
said, as a result of "Binary file matches" does not give any more
information than the actual string match, and scripts which get along
with this answer most likely just check the exit code anyway (which
does not change), the risk is bearable.
We will soon do a test rebuild in yakkety with gcc-6 and grep 2.25,
and will sift through the results to identify new FTBFS that are due
to grep 2.25. This SRU should not be released until this happens.
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