Re: gawk 3.1 rewinds stdin before reading it as a program

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: gawk 3.1 rewinds stdin before reading it as a program
>
> gawk 3.1 rewinds standard input before reading it as a program.  This
> causes it to behave incorrectly in some cases.  Here is an example,
> running on Solaris 8.  Solaris 8 'awk' works correctly, but gawk
> mishandles this example.
>
> ....
>
> Here is a patch.

Largely incorporated verbatim; I kept lseek since I'm going
to need it for some other stuff.

Thanks,

Arnold