On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Sevan Janiyan <[email protected]> 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
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. Your first patch for cat added a feature (-f option) to solve problem in NetBSD which had to be solved in a different way in OpenBSD. As as result, we're not adding the -f option to OpenBSD. So, what's the story with the -l option? What change/fix in OpenBSD base requires it? (It's not portable, so any portable program should be doing this via a more powerful, portable tool, like perl, python, or C.) Philip Guenther
