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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:16:37 -0600
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/uuencode uuencode.1 src/usr.bin/uudecode uudecode.c
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:44:42AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 January 2002 at 18:23:08 -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > Brian F. Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >> Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>> mike        2002/01/27 10:21:23 PST
> >>>
> >>>   Modified files:
> >>>     usr.bin/uuencode     uuencode.1
> >>>     usr.bin/uudecode     uudecode.c
> >>>   Log:
> >>>   Add -o option (POSIX.1-2001) to uudecode(1).  Deprecate the -p option
> >>>   (which allows one to redirect output to stdout); `-o /dev/stdout' is
> >>>   recommended instead.
> >>>
> >>>   Submitted by:   Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org>
> >>>   MFC after:      2 weeks
> >>
> >> How about `-o -'?
> >
> > "In early drafts, the [-o outfile] option-argument allowed the use of
> > - to mean standard output.  The symbol - has only been used previously
> > in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 as a standard input indicator.  The developers
> > of the standard did not wish to overload the meaning of - in this
> > manner.  The /dev/stdout concept exists on most modern systems.  The
> > /dev/stdout syntax does not refer to a new special file.  It is just
> > a magic cookie to specify standard output."
> > 	--POSIX.1-2001
> 
> God, that's ugly.  What was wrong with -p?

No kidding.  It reads as if when /dev/stdout is specified, rather than
passing that string to open(2), the utility should send its output to
file descriptor 1...
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