Re: bug#33965: handling of closed file descriptors

2019-01-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible wrote: The feature is not portable to POSIX platforms. Besides, I doubt whether anybody is using the feature anyway. OK, if you question the "feature" as a whole, Sorry, I was referring only to the never-used feature of diffutils, where "-" in a command-line argument stands for

Re: bug#33965: handling of closed file descriptors

2019-01-05 Thread Bruno Haible
[CCing bug-gnulib. This is a followup to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33965 ] Hi Paul, > The feature is not portable to POSIX > platforms. Besides, I doubt whether anybody is using the feature anyway. OK, if you question the "feature" as a whole, then I'd say: * Users don't