Re: [Bug?] patchutils: interdiff /dev/stdin ... doesn't work

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

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?

Patchutils has no special handling of "-" as an argument.

Max.


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