Bug#1931: less" doesn't work on /proc files

1995-12-02 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > Note that "ls" lists the length of /proc/filesystems > as "0", but read() will get more than 0 data. Less doesn't know that > /proc files are special in this way, and treats them as a 0-length file. > > You could argue that this is a bug in the semantics

Bug#1931: "less" doesn't work on /proc files

1995-11-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Package: less I'm redirecting this to debian-bugs. Note that "ls" lists the length of /proc/filesystems as "0", but read() will get more than 0 data. Less doesn't know that /proc files are special in this way, and treats them as a 0-length file. You could argue that this is a bug in the semantic