[17842] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.27: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Mon May 15 12:34:58 2000
Message-Id: <200005151634.MAA19431@mint-square.mit.edu>
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 12:05:19 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 12:34:52 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> Camilla pointed this out to me. Under NetBSD, where "more" is "less",
> this behavior does not occur. Under Solaris, where "more" is "more",
> this behavior does occur. Curiously, more's exit status on Solaris
> does not appear to change if you abort a read early (at least when
> launched from bash), so I have no idea how more is communicating to
> discuss that it "failed".
I've only seen it with large inputs, and only (assuming I recall correctly)
when piped into less; I suspect it has to do with less's (or more's) input
buffer. I believe I have verified this from the shell...
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
