[Openvas-devel] "Cannot compile regex" while starting openvassd

[Jan-Christopher Brand]

> yes, the upper ones. I can reproduce now these 3.
> If you clean the whole cache, can you see any other regex error?
> Perhaps it makes sense to add your patch for filename output?

No, this are all errors I get.
And the "patch" prints out every filename, which is loaded, and not just the ones with errors, so it is not really useable in OpenVAS. 

> Also I comitted a patch to print error code as text (13 is a bit vague :-).
> error 13: Invalid preceding regular expression

> Which means more or less that a perl RE has been used where it should be a POSIX. No?

> I am not a RE expert, but isn't a "*" or "?" at the beginning of a expression(subpart) a useless?