Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:03:30 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: less and vi fail on file whose name begins with + Message-ID: <DD.37.21507.2A0A3005@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
and type
less +DESC
I get
Missing filename ("less --help" for help)
but if I type the filename with full path, or even
less ./+DESC
it works OK
I also tried going to /tmp and
echo abcdefg > +junk1.txt
and the same bug with less showed up (no problem with echo).
I tried vi instead of less, not really wanting to edit the file,
and vi tried to open a temporary file on /tmp with a strange name.
Has anybody noticed this bug? It affects i386 and amd64 at least.
I have no access to test on other architectures.
If this bug is found, we no doubt want it to be squashed before 9.1-RELEASE.
Tom
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