So, what's the story with the -l option? What change/fix in OpenBSD
base requires it?
Nothing requires it explicitly, more the question of if having the
ability for cat to set exclusive locks on its stdout so that multiple
calls to the same cat command will cause the the output to be
Hi Philip,
On 23/07/2015 00:54, Philip Guenther wrote:
This is the second time you've sent a patching adding a feature
without saying *why* the feature should be added. That's not very
helpful.
Apologies.
Your first patch for cat added a feature (-f option) to solve problem
in NetBSD
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Sevan Janiyan ventur...@geeklan.co.uk wrote:
Attached patch adds the -l flag to cat
This option causes cat(1) to use fcntl(2) to set an exclusive advisory
lock on stdout. which was used to guarantee orderly writing to file.
Obtained from NetBSD cat.c r1.26
Hi,
Attached patch adds the -l flag to cat
This option causes cat(1) to use fcntl(2) to set an exclusive advisory
lock on stdout. which was used to guarantee orderly writing to file.
Obtained from NetBSD cat.c r1.26
Sevan Janiyan
From NetBSD
cat.c r1.32
cat.1 r1.26
Index: bin/cat/cat.1
