Re: Bug#387570: grep -D skip doesn't skip FIFOs but documentation says it should

[Benno Schulenberg]

Michael Paoli wrote:
> Per the documentation (--help, info, man pages)
> -D skip
> or
> --devices=skip
> should cause FIFOs to be skipped.
> In testing, however, FIFOs are not skipped.

Thanks for reporting.  This bug was fixed in CVS almost two years 
ago (in a somewhat ugly way).  Sadly there hasn't been a release 
since then.  For the precise patch see:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2004-11/msg00062.html

Benno