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Date:      Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:36:56 -0800
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r312404 - head/usr.bin/sed
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpUZL13ujKcOjsDfcgg7wNztRK5OHH7BQADAkN_hD-d2pQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: delphij
>> Date: Thu Jan 19 08:01:35 2017
>> New Revision: 312404
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/312404
>>
>> Log:
>>   Use S_ISREG instead of manual & (also it's better to compare the
>>   result from & and the pattern instead of just assuming it's one bit
>>   value).
>>
>>   Pointed out by Tianjie Mao <tjmao tjmao com>.
>>
>>   MFC after:    2 weeks
>>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4827
>
> Hi,
>
> sed -i no longer works on symlinks which breaks lots of ports.
> Please revert and request an exp-run.

That is clearly the intent of the code in question.  It was a bug that
it worked before — S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK just happen to have the
S_IFREG bit set.  It seems like either such ports should be fixed to
dereference the link manually, or the check should be removed
entirely.

Best,
Conrad


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