[regex-coach] Apparent crash on complex regex in "Tree" tab

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:01:53 +0300, era+regex=coach at iki.fi wrote:

> I came across your tool, and while it appears interesting, the first
> thing I tried it with appears to have crashed it somehow.
>
> I was trying to run a SpamAssassin rule against a message from the
> SpamAssassin public corpus. Both of these are publicly available
> from http://www.spamassassin.org but for completeness, I am also
> attaching them below in exactly the form I was using them.
>
> Running the regex from 20_head_tests_cf_UNRESOLVED_TEMPLATE.txt with
> the /m modifier against the message headers in
> easy_ham_00001-head.txt and clicking on the "Tree" tab causes a lot
> of output to be printed on standard output (cf. third attachment)
> and the main window to disappear after a short while. The process is
> still alive, consuming around 90-95% of the CPU, though not
> producing a lot of load (load average still well below one). I
> finally killed it after allowing it to run for some 10 minutes wall
> clock time. Incidentally, ctrl-C causes a message
> "Quittingregex-coach/regex-coach : Interrupted - quitting" to be
> printed (on standard output, not standard error, sigh), but does not
> kill the process.

Which version of Regex Coach on which OS are you using?  FWIW, I can't
reproduce your result with 0.6.7 on Windows XP.

> PS. Would you mind if your list was signed up for Gmane
> <http://www.gmane.org/>?

It's OK with me but note that the list is already archived on
common-lisp.net.  See footer.

> If I go ahead and sign up the list, do you have an mbox archive
> handy which could be imported into Gmane?

No, sorry.

Cheers,
Edi.