Jeremy White [off-list ref] writes:
I did confirm that your patch does work.
However, I assumed that my original patch was rejected.
I never realized that it had been applied.
That clearly means that no one has ever used this option.
Thanks. I didn't mean to witch-hunt (did I ever say "the originally
submitted patches were untested"?), and I apologise if you took it that
way. You were Cc'ed because as the origin of the patch you were likely
to be using that feature.
I just wanted to make sure that the problem I thought I saw was real, and
wanted to make sure that I was not overlooking subtleties in the current
code people who are using the feature are relying upon.
Will apply to maint and merge upwards.