ossp-pkg/pcre/pcreposix.3 1.2 -> 1.3
--- pcreposix.3 2000/08/02 09:46:06 1.2
+++ pcreposix.3 2002/01/07 15:21:06 1.3
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
application which uses them. Because the POSIX functions call the native ones,
it is also necessary to add \fR-lpcre\fR.
-As I am pretty ignorant about POSIX, these functions must be considered as
-experimental. I have implemented only those option bits that can be reasonably
-mapped to PCRE native options. Other POSIX options are not even defined. It may
-be that it is useful to define, but ignore, other options. Feedback from more
-knowledgeable folk may cause this kind of detail to change.
+I have implemented only those option bits that can be reasonably mapped to PCRE
+native options. In addition, the options REG_EXTENDED and REG_NOSUB are defined
+with the value zero. They have no effect, but since programs that are written
+to the POSIX interface often use them, this makes it easier to slot in PCRE as
+a replacement library. Other POSIX options are not even defined.
When PCRE is called via these functions, it is only the API that is POSIX-like
in style. The syntax and semantics of the regular expressions themselves are
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