On 4/16/24 12:44, Pádraig Brady wrote:
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 see that merit too, as when 'install' reads from stdin it needn't do the inode check. However, POSIX requires 'cp - X' to copy a file named '-' to X; cp cannot copy from stdin. Although POSIX doesn't specify 'install', there is some value to having 'install' behave like 'cp'.
I suppose we could have install special-case "/dev/stdin", on platforms where /dev/stdin is known to mean standard input. Seems like a bit much to work around a Darwin kernel bug, though.
