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Re: [PATCH 2/2] don't ignore errors when reading a directory


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] don't ignore errors when reading a directory
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:29:34 +0100

Paul Eggert wrote:
> grep no longer silently suppresses errors when reading a directory
> as if it were a text file.  For example, "grep x ." now reports a
> read error on most systems; formerly, it ignored the error.
> Problem reported as an aside by Bob Proulx (Bug#10355).
> * NEWS: Document this.
> * src/main.c (grep, grepfile): Implement this.  Simplify the code
> considerably -- what drugs were we on back in the 1990s?
> * src/system.h (is_EISDIR): Remove; no longer needed.

Thanks.
I pushed this, too, with a tiny commit log elision.
s/ --.*/./



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