From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 9 05:20:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06609 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 05:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06597 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 05:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id FAA15172; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807091220.FAA15172@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Subject: Re: bin/7203: [PATCH] fetch -o - file:/path/name doesn't go to stdout Reply-To: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/7203; it has been noted by GNATS. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: bmah@ca.sandia.gov Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/7203: [PATCH] fetch -o - file:/path/name doesn't go to stdout Date: 09 Jul 1998 14:14:08 +0200 bmah@ca.sandia.gov writes: > "fetch -o - url://file/name" generally retrieves the URL to stdout. > However, in the case of "file:/" URLs, fetch(1) creates a file called > "-" in the current directory, containing the file contents. This is a result of fetch(1) trying to be smart instead of generic, and will go away when I rewrite fetch(1) to use the fetch(3) library. BTW Jordan, still no feedback from you... should I go ahead and import libfetch into the tree? I'm halfway through rewriting the FTP bits, if I get my lazy arse in gear I might finish that this weekend; then I can start hacking away on fetch(1)... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message