GNU bug report logs - #25146
grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 25146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25146: grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:42:20 +0100

> I installed the attached patch into Gnulib. This 
> isn't perfect (it means MinGW grep won't detect that the input and 
> output are the same file), but it should be good enough to fix the 
> glaring bugs and to conform to POSIX.

Thanks, Paul. Yes, it surely fixes the immediate issue. I agree.

Bruno
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