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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:50:50 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@Kithrup.COM
Subject:   Re: kern/4550
Message-ID:  <199709160850.SAA25472@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Note that any program which assumes that a file doesn't change length while
>it's being read (or written ;)) should probably be considered broken.  I
>believe ftp is one of these; so is rcp.

Try `tar cf /dev/null /proc' for a large collection of errors or
Lite2's wc on /proc/*/* for a small collection of errors (it stops on
the first error :-().

Bruce



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