Example file: $ cat test-grep.txt foo bar foo bar foo bar grep behavior in 12.2-RELEASE: $ grep -A1 -m1 foo test-grep.txt foo bar grep behavior in 13.0-BETA1: $ grep -A1 -m1 foo test-grep.txt foo
Thanks for the report! This diff will fix it: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/grep-m.diff We previously took the mcount hit to bail out immediately, this change ensures that we continue processing lines as non-matches until the -A tail runs out. i.e., changing your second line from bar to foo and re-running the same scenario should output the first foo as a match and the second as a non-match with appropriate delimiter with -n specified. I will clean this up and add a test to commit it a little later today.
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3e2d96ac974db823255a6f40b90eeffa6e38d022 commit 3e2d96ac974db823255a6f40b90eeffa6e38d022 Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-02-08 18:31:17 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-02-08 18:41:22 +0000 grep: fix -A handling in conjunction with -m match limitation The basic issue here is that grep, when given -m 1, would stop all line processing once it hit the match count and exit immediately. The problem with exiting immediately is that -A processing only happens when subsequent lines are processed and do not match. The fix here is relatively easy; when bsdgrep matches a line, it resets the 'tail' of the matching context to the value supplied to -A and dumps anything that's been queued up for -B. After the current line has been printed and tail is reset, we check our mcount and do what's needed. Therefore, at the time that we decide we're doing nothing, we know that 'tail' of the context is correct and we can simply continue on if there's still more to pick up. With this change, we still bail out immediately if there's been no -A flag. If -A was supplied, we signal that we should continue on. However, subsequent lines will not even bothere to try and process the line. We have reached the match count, so even if the next line would match then we must process it if it hadn't. Thus, the loop in procfile() can short-circuit and just process the line as a non-match until procmatches() indicates that it's safe to stop. A test has been added to reflect both that we should be picking up the next line and that the next line should be considered a non-match even if it should have been. PR: 253350 MFC-after: 3 days contrib/netbsd-tests/usr.bin/grep/t_grep.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ usr.bin/grep/util.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
A commit in branch stable/13 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=08f25b50dbd332e5c5c9380fd90c516e9af1ab36 commit 08f25b50dbd332e5c5c9380fd90c516e9af1ab36 Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-02-08 18:31:17 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-02-11 02:49:59 +0000 grep: fix -A handling in conjunction with -m match limitation The basic issue here is that grep, when given -m 1, would stop all line processing once it hit the match count and exit immediately. The problem with exiting immediately is that -A processing only happens when subsequent lines are processed and do not match. The fix here is relatively easy; when bsdgrep matches a line, it resets the 'tail' of the matching context to the value supplied to -A and dumps anything that's been queued up for -B. After the current line has been printed and tail is reset, we check our mcount and do what's needed. Therefore, at the time that we decide we're doing nothing, we know that 'tail' of the context is correct and we can simply continue on if there's still more to pick up. With this change, we still bail out immediately if there's been no -A flag. If -A was supplied, we signal that we should continue on. However, subsequent lines will not even bothere to try and process the line. We have reached the match count, so even if the next line would match then we must process it if it hadn't. Thus, the loop in procfile() can short-circuit and just process the line as a non-match until procmatches() indicates that it's safe to stop. A test has been added to reflect both that we should be picking up the next line and that the next line should be considered a non-match even if it should have been. PR: 253350 (cherry picked from commit 3e2d96ac974db823255a6f40b90eeffa6e38d022) contrib/netbsd-tests/usr.bin/grep/t_grep.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ usr.bin/grep/util.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
A commit in branch releng/13.0 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=dc57f212526d25e8ef036e768b816a7fdae5707b commit dc57f212526d25e8ef036e768b816a7fdae5707b Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-02-11 15:11:24 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-02-11 15:12:17 +0000 grep: fix -A handling in conjunction with -m match limitation The basic issue here is that grep, when given -m 1, would stop all line processing once it hit the match count and exit immediately. The problem with exiting immediately is that -A processing only happens when subsequent lines are processed and do not match. The fix here is relatively easy; when bsdgrep matches a line, it resets the 'tail' of the matching context to the value supplied to -A and dumps anything that's been queued up for -B. After the current line has been printed and tail is reset, we check our mcount and do what's needed. Therefore, at the time that we decide we're doing nothing, we know that 'tail' of the context is correct and we can simply continue on if there's still more to pick up. With this change, we still bail out immediately if there's been no -A flag. If -A was supplied, we signal that we should continue on. However, subsequent lines will not even bothere to try and process the line. We have reached the match count, so even if the next line would match then we must process it if it hadn't. Thus, the loop in procfile() can short-circuit and just process the line as a non-match until procmatches() indicates that it's safe to stop. A test has been added to reflect both that we should be picking up the next line and that the next line should be considered a non-match even if it should have been. PR: 253350 Approved by: re (gjb) (cherry picked from commit 3e2d96ac974db823255a6f40b90eeffa6e38d022) (cherry picked from commit 08f25b50dbd332e5c5c9380fd90c516e9af1ab36) contrib/netbsd-tests/usr.bin/grep/t_grep.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ usr.bin/grep/util.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
A commit in branch stable/12 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ad488c9793fd5040f8267620f370f319df31af2d commit ad488c9793fd5040f8267620f370f319df31af2d Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-02-08 18:31:17 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-02-11 15:20:26 +0000 grep: fix -A handling in conjunction with -m match limitation The basic issue here is that grep, when given -m 1, would stop all line processing once it hit the match count and exit immediately. The problem with exiting immediately is that -A processing only happens when subsequent lines are processed and do not match. The fix here is relatively easy; when bsdgrep matches a line, it resets the 'tail' of the matching context to the value supplied to -A and dumps anything that's been queued up for -B. After the current line has been printed and tail is reset, we check our mcount and do what's needed. Therefore, at the time that we decide we're doing nothing, we know that 'tail' of the context is correct and we can simply continue on if there's still more to pick up. With this change, we still bail out immediately if there's been no -A flag. If -A was supplied, we signal that we should continue on. However, subsequent lines will not even bothere to try and process the line. We have reached the match count, so even if the next line would match then we must process it if it hadn't. Thus, the loop in procfile() can short-circuit and just process the line as a non-match until procmatches() indicates that it's safe to stop. A test has been added to reflect both that we should be picking up the next line and that the next line should be considered a non-match even if it should have been. PR: 253350 (cherry picked from commit 3e2d96ac974db823255a6f40b90eeffa6e38d022) contrib/netbsd-tests/usr.bin/grep/t_grep.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ usr.bin/grep/util.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
This should be in -BETA2. Thanks for the report!