Re: sed: Patch to follow symlinks and -c option

[Paolo Bonzini]

Sorry for the late reply.

> Red Hat made a patch to address this issue and also introduced a new
> -c (--copy) option which creates a copy. This patch is also
> interesting for us at Novell/Suse. 
> I do not know if this has been submitted to you yet. I ported the patch 
> to the current CVS version of sed.
> Please let me know, if you plan to include this feature.

I want sed -i and perl -i to behave as similarly as possible.  Hence, 
the patch is rejected as is.  --copy is rejected for the same reason.

However, I may accept a patch adding a --follow-symlinks options to 
follow symlinks (without any short option).  The patch should include a 
configure test for lstat and readlink, omitting the feature entirely 
(*not* turning it into a no-op) if either is missing.

Thanks in advance,

Paolo