Date: 20 Feb 1999 16:50:43 -0600 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cat Bug Message-ID: <85pv74u1to.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: Mike's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:56:02 -0500" References: <36CC7E62.F458B99B@cflmain.com>
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Mike <mike@cflmain.com> writes: > Hey. I think i found a bug in the version of cat shipped with freebsd. > Usualy on most systems you cannot do cat something.txt >> something.txt > the two hafta be different. But well i was playing around and i found > you could with the ver shipped with freebsd. And if left running for as > little as 10 seconds it creates a 150 meg file, and keeps growing. > Thought you'd like to know. I think you're mistaken. I guess cat could go to extraordinary lengths to see that a file it is catenating is the same as standard output, but the lack of such a check isn't a bug. If you said "I ran cp something.txt something.txt" and cp didn't complain, I might call that a bug. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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