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[PATCH] Fix behavior of --follow-symlinks on stdin

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Message #11 received at 20795 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec <at> suse.com>
Cc: 20795 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20795: [PATCH][TRY2] Fix behavior of --follow-symlinks on
 stdin
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:45:42 -0700

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec <at> suse.com> wrote:
> When reading from stdin, --follow-symlinks causes failure since
> v4.2.1-13-g84066bf:
> echo abc | sed --follow-symlinks s/a/d/
> sed: cannot stat -: No such file or directory
>
> Never call follow_symlink("-") to prevent this problem.
> http://bugs.gnu.org/20795

Thank you for the patch.
I've made only a few small changes.
E.g., I added the ChangeLog-style commit log we require,
adjusting wording in a few places, and I removed some
useless quotes in the new test file.

Just in case, I'll wait for you to review and ack before pushing this.

[0001-sed-fix-follow-symlinks-to-work-when-reading-stdin.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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