Re: Add support for '<&n' file descriptor filenames

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <sf...@us...>]

On Sunday, 10 February 2013, W. Trevor King wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> About a month ago I posted a patch using SourceForge's "Tickets"
> interface [1].  I haven't heard back yet, and there appear to be a
> number of open patches in that interface.  Is that the right place to
> post patches?  Should patches be mailed to this list?  Any guidance
> would be appreciated ;).  Currently both the list [2] and
> tickets/patches appear to be suggested [3].
> 
> If it's just a question of limited mainainer time for patch review, I
> apologies for the noise, and I'll try and contain myself and cultivate
> patience ;).

Could you explain the motivation for the patch?
The example you give

  cat data-1 | ./src/gnuplot -p -e "plot '<&0', '<&3', '<&4'" 3<data-2 4<data-3

seems entirely artificial since you could just as easily say

    gnuplot -p -e "plot data-1, data-2, data-3"

Alternatively you could use named pipes, which also work already.
So what, really, is the use case for this?

	Ethan



> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 
> [1]: http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/609/
> [2]: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.html#SECTION00022000000000000000
> [3]: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.html#SECTION00047000000000000000
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