"W. Trevor King" <wking at tremily.us> writes: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 06:53:11AM +0200, David Bremner wrote: >> W. Trevor King writes: >> > but I expect that closing stdin is more portable than the /dev/null >> > path. >> >> /dev/null is part of POSIX > > Maybe folks want to use nmbug on Windows or some other crazy non-POSIX > OS? I don't know how Windows-compatible the rest of notmuch is (it > looks like Xapian can be built with MSYS+mingw or MSVC [1,2]), and I > don't think supporting non-POSIX OSes is worth a lot of effort, but > using stdin instead here is easy ;).
I have no objection to the code, but I think the comment about portability just causes confusion. As witnessed by this discussion. d