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Re: Bug#112424: zsh: zsh can't read from /proc

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bug#112424: zsh: zsh can't read from /proc
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:39:33 +0000
Cc: Wessel Dankers <wsl-deb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 112424-forwarded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

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References:
- Re: Bug#112424: zsh: zsh can't read from /proc
  - From: Clint Adams

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