Juergen Sawinski:

package/base/sed/no-in-place-wo-file.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- sed-4.1/sed/execute.c	2004-03-13 10:30:39.000000000 +0100
++++ sed-4.1-jsaw/sed/execute.c	2004-06-24 13:35:57.497606648 +0200
+@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@
+ 
+   input->read_fn = read_file_line;
+ 
+-  if (in_place_extension)
++  if (in_place_extension && !(name[0] == '-' && name[1] == '\0'))
+     {
+       int output_fd;
+       char *tmpdir = ck_strdup(name), *p;
+@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@
+   if (input->fp != stdin) /* stdin can be reused on tty and tape devices */
+     ck_fclose(input->fp);
+ 
+-  if (in_place_extension && output_file.fp != NULL)
++  if (in_place_extension && output_file.fp != NULL && output_file.fp != stdout)
+     {
+       ck_fclose (output_file.fp);
+       if (strcmp(in_place_extension, "*") != 0)

package/base/sed/sed.desc

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 4.0.9
+[V] 4.1
 [P] X -1---5---9 108.000
 
-[D] 1507173141 sed-4.0.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/
+[D] 2387309981 sed-4.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/