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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-01-05 19:20:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-01-05 19:20:36 -0800 |
| commit | 2c9d956aacdfddbb87334c985cd995d75102f789 (patch) | |
| tree | c042cc0763e423b51a955c39d6011306613df970 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1104d026514014808629f28f2e6c787bf3c520c4 (diff) | |
| download | diffutils-2c9d956aacdfddbb87334c985cd995d75102f789.tar.gz | |
diff: remove unportable ‘diff -N - f <&-’ feature
* NEWS: Mention this.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add stdopen.
* doc/diffutils.texi (Comparing Directories):
Do not document behavior if stdin is closed.
* src/diff.c: Include stdopen.h.
(main): Call stdopen early.
(compare_files) [__hpux]: Remove recently-introduced
special case for HP-UX exec with stdin closed.
* tests/new-file: Remove tests of the removed feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Incompatible changes + + diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file + in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'. This feature was rarely + if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen + stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE + transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid. + [bug#33965 introduced in 2.8] + * Noteworthy changes in release 3.7 (2018-12-31) [stable] |