Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> Yeah, that looks to be the intended result of that thread.  That
> thread's patch was applied with a58a4f0ad (new source block header
> argument :filelinkdescr, 2012-03-27).  However, shortly after, that
> treatment was intentionally changed (670c7f31c, 2012-03-31):
>
>     simplified implementation of :file-desc header argument
>   
>     This will no longer insert the value of the :file header argument as
>     the description if the description is left blank (as this changes
>     the meaning of the :file header argument).
>   
>     The desc handling logic is moved to the `org-babel-result-to-file'
>     function.
>
> So, I'd say this is a documentation bug.

Thanks for the clarification Kyle. I've attached a patch that I believe
clarifies the documentation to match the current behavior.

Matt