[Nagiosplug-devel] thoughts on regexp using plugins

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> 
> i'm hard pressed to see why this is a better option... compared to adding
> two new files into CVS and defining an extra CFLAG or two if configure
> doesn't find a valid regex library :)
> 

#include "np_regex.h"

(in np_regex.h, do this)
#ifndef HAVE_REGEX
#define regex_t char
#define regmatch_t char

static void no_regex_support(void)
{
	die("Sorry. regex support not available on this platform\n");
}

int regcomp(regex_t *a, const char *b, int flags)
{
	no_regex_support();
	return 0; /* musn't upset the compiler */
}

With similar replacements for regfree(), regexec() and regerror().
No #ifdef's, no hassle and no bloat.

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