GNU bug report logs - #22945
Surprising behaviour (bug?) of zgrep in combination with the -f option and process substitutions

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Fulvio Scapin <trantorvega <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:33:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 22945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, Fulvio Scapin <trantorvega <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22945: Surprising behaviour (bug?) of zgrep in combination
 with the -f option and process substitutions
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:13:34 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 03/16/2016 02:06 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I have worked on a patch but don't have a reliable fix yet, or even a 
> portable test case to illustrate the bug.

On further thought I found a test case and a fix, which I've attached. 
Normally I would just install this, but we're so close to a release that 
I'll wait for a word from Jim.

[0001-zgrep-with-f-SPECIAL-read-SPECIAL-just-once.patch (application/x-patch, attachment)]
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