Re: [PATCH] test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:21:00PM CET:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > It's a bit of a shame this uses a temp file though.  awk should be
> > > > able to cope without

> > One would assume that it's not common to use more than one
> > function invocation in parallel:
> >   deindent foo | deindent > ...
> >
> Which should be a no-op, BTW.

/Should/, in the sense of "one would not want to use this in practice, but also 
one would expect this to work".  But it doesn't:  With the current 
implementation, the two functions can run in parallel and scribble over the 
same temporary file.

Cheers,
Ralf