Bug#387570: grep -D skip doesn't skip FIFOs but documentation says it should

Michael Paoli wrote: > Per the documentation (--help, info, man pages) > -D skip > or > --devices=skip > should cause FIFOs to be skipped. > In testing, however, FIFOs are not skipped. Thanks for reporting. This bug was fixed in CVS almost two years ago (in a somewhat ugly way). Sadly there has

Bug#387570: grep -D skip doesn't skip FIFOs but documentation says it should

Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds1-4 Severity: normal I also tested this with the binary from Version 2.5.1.ds2-5 (i386) and got the same results. both binaries give the same --version output: $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, I