Re: null terminal?

[Peter J. <pet...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Tait <gnu...@t4...> wrote:
>> > Should we perhaps create a null terminal (that silently discards
>> > everything, like /dev/null) to facilitate iterating over files like
>> > above?
>>

The "unknown" terminal can be used for that purpose.

>> That was part of what the "stats" patchset was intended for.
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2894333&group_id=2055&atid=302055
>> I don't know what's happened to the people who were preparing that
>> for inclusion in CVS; it's gone silent.
>

Zoltán Vörös had said that he is not interested in the patch anymore.
Philipp K. Janert had expressed interest in the patch, but that was
the last communication I had from him.

> I remember that. It seemed like a good idea to include as a program in
> contrib. If the original author doesn't mind, maybe it can be revived
> and modified a bit.
>

It seems that he does mind.
The "stats" patch currently exists in two versions: one is on the
Sourceforge tracker, and the other is a version Zoltán Vörös has
created to answer some of the criticism raised on this list. When he
announced that he does not wish to work on it anymore, he sent me his
last version. I was going to make it into a proper patchset with
updated documentation, ready to go into the CVS, but then Philipp told
me not to, because he said he didn't agree with some of the
modifications Zoltán made. I haven't heard from him since.

Péter Juhász