linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: allow piping

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:11:03 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, apw@...dowen.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	jschopp@...tin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: allow piping

On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 01:47 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:41 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 01/11/2008 10:36 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:34 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > >> If somebody is hacking kernel, I think he should know the - trick used in many 
> > >> programs, but do not consider this as a nack.
> > > 
> > > I'm hacking the kernel, and I didn't know the - trick .. So you have
> > > your testing case all in one with the patch submitter ..
> > 
> > OK, maybe we should base it in doc for patch submitting then?
> 
> It's in the bash docs I'm sure, it's just a matter of who ends up

Yes, too. And "awk" also supports that.
But "/dev/stdin" is also since ages a symlink to
"/proc/self/fd/0" (which is another equivalent "file").

> reading that part of the docs.. I still think my patch is a good one ,
> we could change the name to "Allow piping with out tricks" I suppose ..

	Bernd
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