Re: GNU Awk 3.1.2 reading zero length files

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thnak you for your bug report.

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Carlos J. G. Duarte wrote:
> It seems from gawk 3.1.1 to gawk 3.1.2 a minor optimization
> was made-- skipping zero length files.
> In linux, files under /proc filesystem have zero length,
> are regular files and they do have contents.

The problem has been discussed before.  A solution has been first posted
in the message
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00256.html

But perhaps it's better to get the newer combined patch from
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-04/msg00032.html

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal