coreutils/tests/misc/cat-proc, branch v6.0Mirror of https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/coreutils.git/
https://git.shady.money/coreutils/atom?h=v6.02006-06-27T18:43:58Z* tests/misc/cat-proc: Try to avoid any spurious numeric2006-06-27T18:43:58ZJim Meyeringjim@meyering.net2006-06-27T18:43:58Zurn:sha1:df96ded8aea73b5134d800865534548b46f79283
differences in frequently-changing /proc/cpuinfo.
Reported by Nelson Beebe.
Ensure that cat works with any of the options, -A -v -e -E -T,2006-06-08T20:13:37ZJim Meyeringjim@meyering.net2006-06-08T20:13:37Zurn:sha1:790892db657ac79b0ba5f7a69cc7e70eb4fed8e0
when applied to files in /proc and /sys, even when the FIONREAD
ioctl produces nonsensical results. Before this change, cat would
produce no output (or truncated output), for some linux kernels.
* src/cat.c (write_pending): New function, factored out of cat.
(cat): Also interpret a negative ioctl/FIONREAD count as indicating
that there are bytes to read. Some versions of linux-2.6.16 do that.
Write any pending output before returning.
Reported by Dan Jacobson in <http://bugs.debian.org/370583>.
* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
* tests/misc/cat-proc: New file. Test for the above.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cat-proc.