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bug#16951: zless error under ulimit -v
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From: |
Mark Nudelman |
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Subject: |
bug#16951: zless error under ulimit -v |
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Date: |
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:35:23 -0800 |
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Hi Paul,
Since less-451, if LESSOPEN starts with two pipe chars, less does
examine the exit status of the preprocessor. Is this what you're
looking for?
--Mark
On 3/6/2014 1:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report. This bug occurs because 'less' ignores the
> exit status of gzip. That is, 'less' uses the LESSOPEN environment
> variable to discover that gzip is the input processor, and uses gzip,
> but when it calls pclose on the resulting stream it discards the exit
> status returned by pclose. 'less' should inspect the exit status and
> report an error in that case.
>
> I'll CC: this email to address@hidden to give its developer a
> heads-up. Mark, the original bug report is here:
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> http://bugs.gnu.org/16951