What side effects? Can you give one or two examples, please? --- Sent using a tiny phone keyboard. Apologies for any typos and autocorrect. This old phone only supports top post. Apologies.
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> or <c...@freebsd.org> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. --- -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Giffuni Sent: 05/12/2017 08:40 To: Cy Schubert; Devin Teske; Hans Petter Selasky Cc: rgri...@freebsd.org; c...@freebsd.org; Eitan Adler; src-committers; svn-src-all@freebsd.org; svn-src-h...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r326554 - in head: . usr.bin/spongeusr.bin/sponge/tests usr.bin/tee On 05/12/2017 11:29, Cy Schubert wrote: Why not update sed to create the backup file only if the suffix is given to -i, like gnu sed does. No, no .. there have been several failed attempts at that that cause nasty side effects. It is also a rather non-standardish thing to do. Pedro. --- Sent using a tiny phone keyboard. Apologies for any typos and autocorrect. This old phone only supports top post. Apologies. Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> or <c...@freebsd.org> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. --- From: Devin Teske Sent: 05/12/2017 07:35 To: Hans Petter Selasky Cc: rgri...@freebsd.org; c...@freebsd.org; Eitan Adler; src-committers; svn-src-all@freebsd.org; svn-src-h...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r326554 - in head: . usr.bin/sponge usr.bin/sponge/tests usr.bin/tee > On Dec 5, 2017, at 5:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: > >> On 12/05/17 13:58, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> Further more, why does freebsd need this in base? > > Hi, > > I think this is useful. It could replace the "-i " (intermediate) option for > "sed" for example. It avoids creating temporary files when filtering files, > right? > > --HPS > Wth is wrong with: data=$( sed -e '...' somefile ) && ������� echo "$data" > somefile or set -e data=... echo "$data" > ... or exec 3<<EOF $( ... ) EOF cat > ... <&3 or (I digress) Infinite variations, but the gist is that sponge looks to be trying to help sh(1)/similar when help is unneeded. Why buffer data into memory via fork-exec-pipe to sponge when you can buffer to native namespace without pipe to sponge? Am I missing something? Why do we need sponge(1)? -- Devin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
