On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:35:04PM +0000, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
>
> > I attached an updated patch that corrects this pb by discarding the
> > buffer when opening a new file.
>
> This discarding is still bad as it throws away valid data if the open
> file description is shared. This happens if stdin is redirected inside a
I'm with Jilles on this. I also don't particularly feel like
bloating dash just because of the borked /proc interface when
there is a perfectly adequate work-around in "cat".
value=$(cat /proc/file)
Cheers,
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