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Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:29:25 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0411041720381.295@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried running interdiff on standard input, following the example from
> the interdiff manpage:
>
> Reversing part of a patch (and ignoring the rest):
>
> filterdiff -i file.c patchfile | \
> interdiff /dev/stdin /dev/null
>
> The command I used was
>
> cvs diff -rHEAD | interdiff /dev/stdin /dev/null
>
> and got a "/dev/stdin: No such file or directory" message from interdiff.
> While I realize that there's no system-level support for /dev/stdin in
> Cygwin (though bash does support it), using "-" didn't work either. Is
> this a known limitation of patchutils?
> Igor
Oops, I had every intention of including this in the original message:
$ cygcheck -cd cygwin patchutils
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
cygwin 1.5.11-1
patchutils 0.2.30pre1-1
Sorry,
Igor
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