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+Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:10:00 -0700\r
+From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nmbug: Add an 'init' command\r
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+On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 09:02:20AM +0200, David Bremner wrote:\r
+> W. Trevor King writes:\r
+> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 06:53:11AM +0200, David Bremner wrote:\r
+> >> W. Trevor King writes:\r
+> >> > but I expect that closing stdin is more portable than the\r
+> >> > /dev/null path.\r
+> >>=20\r
+> >> /dev/null is part of POSIX\r
+> >\r
+> > Maybe folks want to use nmbug on Windows or some other crazy\r
+> > non-POSIX OS? I don't know how Windows-compatible the rest of\r
+> > notmuch is (it looks like Xapian can be built with MSYS+mingw or\r
+> > MSVC [1,2]), and I don't think supporting non-POSIX OSes is worth\r
+> > a lot of effort, but using stdin instead here is easy ;).\r
+>=20\r
+> I have no objection to the code, but I think the comment about\r
+> portability just causes confusion. As witnessed by this discussion.\r
+\r
+I wanted to explain why I wasn't using /dev/null, especially since\r
+that's what the Perl version used and that phrasing is preserved in\r
+the current comment:\r
+\r
+ # magic hash for Git (git hash-object -t blob /dev/null) =\r
+ =20\r
+ _EMPTYBLOB =3D 'e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391'\r
+\r
+So how should I more clearly explain why I prefer stdin to /dev/null?\r
+Maybe =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6 is more portable than the /dev/null path (which do=\r
+esn't exist\r
+on Windows, for example).=E2=80=9D?\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+Trevor\r
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