Re: Redirecting standard output

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I fixed that; see the diffs for revno 104152.1.2 for the gory details
>> (if you are interested).

Thanks for doing this.  I had a feeling that the DOS bits weren't quite
right.  :-)

> Btw, while working on this, I noticed that the code fragment shown
> below is doing a lot of work that is just thrown away in the case that
> `:file' is used to redirect stdout of the child.  That's because we
> will never read from that file, so setting up the coding-system to
> decode it seems futile.
>
> Should we do all that only when output_to_buffer is non-zero?

Yes, I think that sounds correct.

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