On 4/19/24 11:17, Tanmay wrote:
I've grown more curious about how this feature is implemented to handle stdin.
Oh, that's one big advantage of free software: you can read the source code, and change it if it doesn't meet your needs. GNU diff implements this feature by using openat. See:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/src/diff.c#n1541
