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> As you say, an even easier was to see the bug in action is:
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> $ cat <(date)
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> which should print the current date, but doesn't in newer
> kernels.
I'm running a 1.3.57 kernel and this command does print the date.
However, the prompt fails to return untill a ^C, so it isn't quite right
either.
There was a problem recently with less and proc files (had to do with 0
file length reported by stat()). This looks like a similar glitch with EOF.
Later,
Dwarf
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