Re: gnatsd problems with 4.0.1

[Tim Buck]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Chad Walstrom wrote:

> Tim Buck wrote:
> > However, the debugging binary doesn't work correctly. Some commands
> > (such as DBLS) work, but most EXPR commands return "415 invalid
> > expression" (the same expressions work in gnats 4.0).
>
> This is strange.  There were no changes to the regex code between 4.0
> and 4.0.1.  Have you tested simple expressions as well as more complex
> ones?  If you could share what you've tried, perhaps we can test on our
> own as well.

Here's a very simple example. This query string was generated by
GNATSweb. Both versions of GNATS were built on the same machine &
platform (FreeBSD 5.3/amd64):

using GNATS 4.0:
200 maytag.rrinc.com GNATS server 4.0 ready.
CHDB default
210-Now accessing GNATS database 'default'
210 User access level set to 'edit'
EXPR (State[type]!="closed") & (Responsible~"^tim$")
210 Ok.

using GNATS 4.0.1:
200 maytag.rrinc.com GNATS server 4.0.1 ready.
CHDB default
210-Now accessing GNATS database 'default'
210 User access level set to 'edit'
EXPR (State[type]!="closed") & (Responsible~"^tim$")
415 Invalid expression.

However, if I use a simpler version of that expression without the
extraneous parentheses (rather than the one generated from GNATSweb),
it works:

200 maytag.rrinc.com GNATS server 4.0.1 ready.
CHDB default
210-Now accessing GNATS database 'default'
210 User access level set to 'edit'
EXPR State[type]!="closed" & Responsible~"tim"
210 Ok.

I hope this info helps.

Tim Buck * Information Technology Manager * Recognition Research, Inc.
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