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

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From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec <at> suse.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, sbrabec <at> suse.cz
Cc: 20795 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20795: [PATCH][TRY2] Fix behavior of --follow-symlinks on stdin
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:44:28 +0200

On Thu Jun 16, 2015 at 06:45 ANN Jim Meyering wrote:
> 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.
>
ACK, looks OK.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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