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From: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>
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Subject: Re: grep -Dskip doesn't skip FIFOs
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David Xu wrote on 06.12.2012 04:28:
> On 2012/12/06 07:07, Marco Steinbach wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> grep(1) does not seem to skip FIFOs when told to.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I think you need a patch to fix it, the bug is in ggrep, it tries to
> open a FIFO before checking if it is a FIFO, then blocked.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/patch/grep.c.diff

This patch seems to fix it.  Thank you for taking care of this.

MfG CoCo