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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents no longer supported |
Date: | Wed, 9 Aug 2023 13:57:36 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 |
On 2023-08-08 12:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Paul, can there be a regular file that is not seekable?
No.The current code on master is a bit of a mess. There's nothing wrong with using a positive BEG on a seekable and non-regular file, for example; the old doc string was wrong and now the code has been changed to match the doc string unfortunately. Nor is there anything wrong if BEG is 0 on a non-seekable file (though this latter issue is longstanding and so I guess nobody cares).
There are surely some gotchas involving the REPLACE arg of insert-file-contents too, but it's hard to tell because the doc string seems to be corrupted for the case where REPLACE is 'if-regular' and I don't know what it's trying to say.
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