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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 00:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Chen <oistrakh@earthlink.net>
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Subject: [Slightly OT] Re: tail
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If you find this aspect of cat and tail to be annoying, at least it's
consistent. On Solaris 2.7/2.8, cat will

1. Complain if you try to cat a normal, relative path directory,
   such as 'cat mydir'
2. Complain if you try to cat any NFS-mounted directory
3. BUT, happily display any full path directory, such as '/', '/tmp'
   and '/tmp/somewhere/over/the/rainbow'

This is all the more crazy because 'truss cat /' clearly displays
a call to fstat() to check the type of the file, and fstat()/fstat64()
correctly returns that '/', '/tmp', et al., are directories.

Christian Chen

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, David W.Chapman Jr. wrote:

> Has it ever been different, have you tried running cat /
>
> its just taking the last few lines of that.  What are you expecting?
>
> > :: -----Original Message-----
> > :: From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> > :: [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Byrnes
> > :: Sent: Monday, 30 April 2001 16:25
> > :: To: stable@freebsd.org
> > :: Subject: tail
> > ::
> > :: awww# tail /
> > ::
> > :: .
> > ::  ..
> > ::     dev
> > ::        usr
> > ::           varstand
> > ::                      etc)
> > :: compat$procu%
> > ::                binbootuC
> > ::
> > :: sys
> > ::     mnt(
> > :: modulesrootusbinuC
> > ::
> > :: sys.cshrc.profile;   COPYRIGHTkernelENERIC
> > ::                                                 ,tmp
> > ::                                                       modules.ollibexec
> > :: home7
> > :: kernel.old5x
> > :: sshd.corst2iI1UR28-2000.tgzbackups9-23-2000.tar.gsh.coreS
> > ::
> > :: syslogd.coreawww#
> > ::
> > ::
> > :: wtf?
> > ::
> > :: Chris Byrnes <chris@JEAH.net>
> > :: JEAH Communications, LLC. <www.JEAH.net>
> > :: Toll-Free <1-866-AWW-JEAH>


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