>> This would be e.g. RH AS which has a bug in grep such that unless LANG=C
> execution time are several orders of magnitude longer than should be the case,
> a bug which they've known about since a long time, and which has been fixed in
> an update for RH9?
But that bug isn't a security issue, enterprise people want stability,
they don't want their greps suddenly running faster leaving them with
spare cycles :-), all their crontabbing would get messed up if everything
got faster..
Dave.
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