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Date:      Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:21:02 +0100
From:      Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep -Dskip doesn't skip FIFOs
Message-ID:  <50C0FE2E.8090606@executive-computing.de>
In-Reply-To: <50C010D0.3070205@freebsd.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212052350170.36676@probsd.c0c0.intra> <50C010D0.3070205@freebsd.org>

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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




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