Subject: bug#17145: head fails with implicit stdin on darwin

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:41:19 -0700

Denis Excoffier wrote:
> I use coreutils 8.22 compiled (with gcc-4.8.2) on top of darwin 13.1.0 (Mavericks).

Presumably it's a darwin-specific problem, since it doesn't occur on 
GNU/Linux or on Cygwin.  I'm afraid that meas you'll have to investigate 
it more.  What happens when you use the darwin equivalent of 'strace', 
whatever that is these days?