On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Galos, David <galos...@students.rowan.edu> wrote: >> Except it does not actually sponge in the stdout case, only when >> writing to file. Perhaps it would be better to drop support for stdout? >> Or cat temp file to stdout at the end? Why does it open a temp file >> when not using it? > > Definitely drop stdout support, its existence makes no sense. > > To keep the code simple, I suggest a read-write temp copy, rather > than ever using rename. >
That would also give the ability to pass /dev/stdout as a file to support stdout for free. (Or have I misunderstood what you are saying?) There are lots of utilities that don't support stdout natively for which one can just pass the /dev/stdout file. Cheers, -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
