bug#20795: [PATCH][TRY2] Fix behavior of --follow-symlinks on stdin

[Stanislav Brabec]

On Thu Jun 16, 2015 at 06:45 ANN Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Stanislav Brabec <address@hidden> wrote:
> > When reading from stdin, --follow-symlinks causes failure since
> > v4.2.1-13-g84066bf:
> > echo abc | sed --follow-symlinks s/a/d/
> > sed: cannot stat -: No such file or directory
> >
> > Never call follow_symlink("-") to prevent this problem.
> > http://bugs.gnu.org/20795
>
> Thank you for the patch.
> I've made only a few small changes.
> E.g., I added the ChangeLog-style commit log we require,
> adjusting wording in a few places, and I removed some
> useless quotes in the new test file.
>
> Just in case, I'll wait for you to review and ack before pushing this.
ACK, looks OK.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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