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pr lacks -p

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From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 47243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Subject: bug#47243: pr lacks -p
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:21:15 -0700

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Hi Paul,

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

> Thanks for looking into that. Unfortunately POSIX says -p should be
> ignored only if standard output is a terminal, and that newline should
> be read from /dev/tty, not from standard input. This is so that users
> can pipe into 'pr -p'. So the proposed patch needs some changes. Here
> are the issues I found:

Thanks for the thorough review.

I think that v3 attached should cover everything.

Collin

[v3-0001-pr-implement-p-as-required-by-POSIX-Issue-6.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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