PATCH RFA: Permit objcopy -add-section to work with /dev/null

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Ian,

> I will do that if you like but I don't agree with your reasoning.  One
> of the strengths of Unix is that it presents a unified namespace which
> covers a number of different data sources.  All objcopy wants is a
> sequence of bytes, and that can come from anywhere.  I don't see why
> anybody would ever want to use --add-section with /dev/stdin or with a
> named pipe, but I also don't see why objcopy should reject that.
> Working with different file types is a feature, not a bug.  Rejecting
> file types which can work is a bug, not a feature.  We can protect the
> user from things that are clearly wrong, but we should not protect the
> user from doing something that is not clearly wrong merely because we
> don't have the imagination to see that it could potentially be right.

Fair enough - in which case please go ahead with your original version 
of the patch.

Cheers
   Nick