Re: sed bug on seekable stdin

[Paolo Bonzini]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> POSIX requires the following behavior [1]:
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> $ rm -Rf file
> $ echo a b | tr ' ' '\n' > file
> $ (sed -n 1q; cat) < file
> b

It turns out, as Ralf reported, that CVS sed actually works like this 
already, because it explicitly uses fdopen to reopen stdin (this is 
necessary to support --binary on cygwin), and so it always closes stdin 
before exiting.

Thanks for the report anyway!

Paolo