> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:47:59 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > CC: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] > > For consistency, shouldn't grep do something similar when checking > whether the input file is the same as the output file? Not only > is this more consistent, it simplifies maintenance, and in this case > it even *increases* reliability on POSIX hosts. Here's a proposed > patch.
This change is a no-op for the MinGW build, so it's fine with me, if anyone cares about my opinion. Its main effect is on Posix hosts with various issues wrt `struct stat', as documented on the current system.h.
