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

[Hanspeter Kunz]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:36 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <hp at edelkunz.ch> [2007.09.21.1528 +0100]:
> > well, I do not know the implementation of egrep. If it is
> > intelligent it simply discards constructions like .*$
> 
> It would still take more time.

yep. but only once to preprocess the pattern and not during actual
pattern matching - given that grep does anything like that.