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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-06-08 20:13:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-06-08 20:13:37 +0000 |
| commit | 790892db657ac79b0ba5f7a69cc7e70eb4fed8e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d768a6a1af6cab8a813c1173dddc93c352f4751 /NEWS | |
| parent | cad27cdc2ea46ec401b71b76a92fcf3bc1d094e0 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-790892db657ac79b0ba5f7a69cc7e70eb4fed8e0.tar.xz | |
Ensure that cat works with any of the options, -A -v -e -E -T,
when applied to files in /proc and /sys, even when the FIONREAD
ioctl produces nonsensical results. Before this change, cat would
produce no output (or truncated output), for some linux kernels.
* src/cat.c (write_pending): New function, factored out of cat.
(cat): Also interpret a negative ioctl/FIONREAD count as indicating
that there are bytes to read. Some versions of linux-2.6.16 do that.
Write any pending output before returning.
Reported by Dan Jacobson in <http://bugs.debian.org/370583>.
* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
* tests/misc/cat-proc: New file. Test for the above.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cat-proc.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + cat with any of the options, -A -v -e -E -T, when applied to a + file in /proc or /sys (linux-specific), would truncate its output, + usually printing nothing. + cp -p would fail in a /proc-less chroot, on some systems When `cp -RL' encounters the same directory more than once in the |