[Logcheck-devel] Bug#443171: Bug#443171: rules to ignore acpid messages

[Hanspeter Kunz]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:44 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Gerfried Fuchs <alfie at ist.org> [2007.09.21.1432 +0100]:
> > What can sneak in at the end that isn't catched by a .*?  Maybe another
> > side question: Is there any performance inpact on that added?
> 
> That's the argument of the bug submitter: .*$ requires more
> performance than just ending the regexp.

well, I do not know the implementation of egrep. If it is intelligent it
simply discards constructions like .*$