Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request

[Ed Morton]

On 12/25/2012 9:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:51:05 +0200
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >   address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > > >         char buf[100];  /* say */
> > > >         sprintf(buf, "/dev/fd/%d", save_fd);
> > > >
> > > >         fp = freopen(buf, "w", stdout);
> > > >         close(save_fd);
> > > >         save_fd = -1;
> > > >
> > > > Ta da!
> > > >
> > > > Details left as an exercise for the reader.
> > > But /dev/fd/N is not portable :-(
> > Solaris, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, Cygwin.  Portable enough for me
> But obviously not for me.
>
> > I suspect that some combination of dup, fileno, freopen, fdopen, and
> > *stdout = *fp / *fp = *stdout could be made to work on systems not
> > supporting /dev/fd.
> Maybe.  Me, I don't eben understand what you are trying to accomplish,
> as you'd be mv'ing the output anyway.

Sorry, I don't know what the process is for how enhancements get implemented: Is 
there a proposed solution/implementation, now, that we get to agree on (or 
otherwise!)?

    Ed.