While looking into Bug#45648 I noticed that the GNU extensions
count_bytes, seek_bytes, and skip_bytes are confusing, and the proposed
fix to bug#45648 would make them even more confusing. To fix this
confusion, we should deprecate these options, and instead say that if
you want to use byte cou
On 1/4/21 20:08, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 1/4/21 7:44 PM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
TLDR: *huge* existing presence of 'iseek' and 'oseek'; most OSes document
them as pure synonyms for 'skip' and 'seek'.
Thanks for doing all that research. It's compelling, and I think your
patch (or something like it) s
On 22/02/2022 17:03, Paul Eggert wrote:
While looking into Bug#45648 I noticed that the GNU extensions
count_bytes, seek_bytes, and skip_bytes are confusing, and the proposed
fix to bug#45648 would make them even more confusing. To fix this
confusion, we should deprecate these options, and instea
On 2/22/22 09:29, Pádraig Brady wrote:
That is a more concise and direct way to achieve the same functionality.
+1
I guess we should remove docs for the other options,
but leave support there for backwards compat.
Sounds good, I installed the attached and am closing the bug report.From 155cc94
