File sed-follow-symlinks-hyphen.patch of Package sed

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File sed-follow-symlinks-hyphen.patch of Package sed

This is a backport of the fix itself.

From c033bdee411128dfebfea1974d1ee3c1d9eac572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:38:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] sed -i: do not treat "-" as a file name

Most GNU utilities treat "-" as standard input, sed itself does that --
in most contexts.  However, since the addition of support for
--in-place (-i) in sed-4.0, sed -i has treated a "-" argument as a
file name, i.e., like ./-.  Now, that usage evokes a diagnostic:

$ sed -i s/a/b/ -
  sed: couldn't edit -: is a terminal

If you require the old behavior, specify the file name as "./-".
Prompted by the report/patch from Stanislav Brabec in
http://bugs.gnu.org/20796 to document the strangely
inconsistent legacy behavior.

* sed/execute.c (open_next_file): Call panic before
even attempting to operate on the file descriptor.
* testsuite/in-place-hyphen.sh: New file.  Test for this.
* testsuite/Makefile.am (T): Add it.
* NEWS (Feature removal): Mention it. Admittedly, the old behavior
feels more like a misfeature.
---
 NEWS                         |  3 +++
 sed/execute.c                |  5 ++++-
 testsuite/Makefile.am        |  1 +
 testsuite/in-place-hyphen.sh | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 testsuite/in-place-hyphen.sh

Index: sed-4.2.2/sed/execute.c
===================================================================
--- sed-4.2.2.orig/sed/execute.c
+++ sed-4.2.2/sed/execute.c
@@ -580,8 +580,11 @@ open_next_file(name, input)
 {
   buffer.length = 0;
 
-  if (name[0] == '-' && name[1] == '\0' && !in_place_extension)
+  if (name[0] == '-' && name[1] == '\0')
     {
+      if (in_place_extension)
+        panic(_("couldn't edit %s: is a terminal"), name);
+
       clearerr(stdin);	/* clear any stale EOF indication */
 #if defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(MSDOS) || defined(__EMX__)
       input->fp = ck_fdopen (fileno (stdin), "stdin", read_mode, false);

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