Re: OpenBSD patterns(7) from Lua

[Tim Channon <tc@...>]

I see that as a tribute to the authors, a vindication of staying with 
plain C and of permissive licencing.

On 14/08/2015 22:01, William Ahern wrote:
> OpenBSD has incorporated into their native http daemon the pattern matching
> code from Lua. Here's the manual page:
>
> 	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/patterns.7
>
> People were requesting that OpenBSD httpd support address rewriting, but the
> author didn't want to use regular expressions because of the history of
> exploits in regex implementations. Somebody suggested looking at Lua's
> pattern maching and he was quickly won over. Here was the announcement:
>
> 	https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143480475721221&w=2