sed -i symlink behavior...

[yersinia]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Peter Bloomfield <
peterbloomfield at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On 09/02/2009 10:07 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09/02/2009 11:39 AM, Jerry James wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Warren Togami<wtogami redhat com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is the correct behavior?  Is this a bug that it changed?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Read up on the --follow-symlinks option to sed.
>>>
>>
>> This is a new option it seems, meaning I can't rely on sed -i at all
>> anymore. I'm rather displeased that a core utility fundamentally changed its
>> own behavior.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>
> Apparently [1] upstream sed always broke symlinks, and "Red Hat made a
> patch" to follow them instead.  Fedora packages from some point up to
> sed-4.1.5-12.fc11 seem to have used it.  So the default behavior in Fedora
> sed is now consistent with upstream, instead of with the prior patched
> version.  That's inconvenient if you're accustomed to the "Red Hat" version,
> but better for interoperability!
>
> Peter
>
> [1]
> http://www.nabble.com/Re:-sed:-Patch-to-follow-symlinks-and--c-option-td7471749.html
>
> In fact the comment in this link is
....
I want sed -i and perl -i to behave as similarly as possible.  Hence,
the patch is rejected as is.  --copy is rejected for the same reason.
.....
as i have already commented out previously.

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