Hi, On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 08:44:06PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I agree if it's older Darwin only, we can ignore. > The version I tested on is 3 years old now though, > so I'm not sure whether the issue is on newer or older. > > Note we had similar issue on Solaris, > where we used an fstat() wrapper to adjust things: > https://bugs.gnu.org/35713 > > A related suggestion was from Marc Chantreux (CC'd) > to support '-' to imply stdin, which would be more portable. > There is some merit to that suggestion too.
I think /dev/stdin is a good name for stdin. It should work everywhere, and if not the system is broken, in which case, I'd rather fix the system than adding a slightly different special case for - in every program. Of course there are systems one can't fix, like Solaris... Commands that special-case - I always need to remember, and check the docs. But it's a personal opinion, and I don't feel too strongly about it. Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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