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bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display
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Mark Oteiza |
Subject: |
bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 11:06:22 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:19:32 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 22096@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
>> > (info "(elisp) Reading from Files") suggests I should be able to read
>> > from a FIFO.
>>
>> I guess you mean this part:
>>
>> It is possible to read a special file (such as a FIFO or an I/O
>> device) with `insert-file-contents', as long as REPLACE and VISIT
>> are `nil'.
>>
>> It seems this is no longer true, and we have to fix the manual to that
>> effect.
>
> Or maybe that text just gets the value of VISIT wrong: the code in
> question is very old, and always signaled an error for non-regular
> files when VISIT is nil.
Supposedly (according to the docstring) BEG and END have to be nil if
VISIT is t, so I should probably be getting an error about supplying
invalid arguments.
bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display, Mark Oteiza, 2015/12/05