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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: Wessel Dankers <wsl-deb@fruit.eu.org>, 112424-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#112424: zsh: zsh can't read from /proc
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:39:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010917163933.ZM6065@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010917113450.A15463@dman.com>

On Sep 17, 11:34am, Clint Adams wrote:
} Subject: Re: Bug#112424: zsh: zsh can't read from /proc
}
} Do we want to special-case this?
} 
} > zsh seems to have trouble reading from /proc special files.
} > 
} > The problem is that zsh reads files one byte at a time.

Hrm.  There's always

    read -u0 -k 128 HOST </proc/sys/kernel/hostname

but that has the drawback of returning a nonzero $?.

In any case, it appears that bash and bash2 have the same behavior when
reading from that file, so I'd say this is not our bug to fix.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2001-09-17 15:34 ` Clint Adams
2001-09-17 16:39   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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