On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 08/02/2018 09:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I had the same initial negative reaction to adding support for an >> envvar, but given the minor effect and worthy goal, I think the >> balance has tipped in favor of allowing this one. > > Yes, on further thought I'm inclined to go whole hog and just fix the durn > thing without any fancy environment variables. In hindsight, that timestamp > never should have been put in there when stdin is a pipe. I installed the > attached patch, which should fix the problem. What do you think? Although > this is not strictly backward-compatible and arguably violates the GNU > coding guidelines, I can't imagine anybody really wants that timestamp in > there (except perhaps for spy agencies trying to track what people are doing > :-).
Thanks. With that, we'll have some NEWS for the next release. I'm not planning a release at the moment, but do prefer to make a new one at least once per year -- it's been almost 8 months.
