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[Bug 323481] [NEW] Dictionary plugin regular expression is buggy - hangs if there is a space in the input

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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:42:26 -0000
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The Gnome Dictionary plugin uses a faulty regular expression
("^([^\W0-9_]+([ -][^\W0-9_]+)?)$") in SupportsItem. If there is a space
in the input stream, the process will hang. The hang is a bug in mono
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352096), but the cause is a
faulty regular expression. I'm a write-only regex guy, so I can't tell
you _what's_ wrong, just that it hangs my system so bad that I have to
Ctrl+Alt+F1 and killall gnome-do. If the regex is correct, then this is
a bug in Mono's regex code.

** Affects: do-plugins
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Dictionary plugin regular expression is buggy - hangs if there is a space in the input
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/323481
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