On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:30:19PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >>>* Jeff Johnston: >>>>>"set | more" only the first page is shown, it does not display the >>>>>"More" prompt, and the bash prompt appears at the bottom. >>> >>>>Try 1.3.13-2 if you haven't already. >>> >>>I'm used 13-2 and I can confirm Jeff's report. More seems to have >>>broken. >> >>I ported 'more' mainly for people that have never heard of 'less' or >>people with extremely small disk space looking to cut corners. I'll >>take a look as soon as I can, but *please* anyone who can use 'less', >>do so. >> >>BTW, does anyone have any additional details about the failure? > >I do. I managed to duplicate the problem by trying to run it on NT 4.0. >The problem is that more assumes that it can read characters from fd 2 >which seems a remarkably iffy assumption. It uses read(2, ...) to >characters from the 'tty'. > >1.3.13 added code to invalidate reading on file descriptors that are >open only for writing. Cygwin had been opening all of the standard >descriptors "appropriately" so that fd 0 was opened only for reading, fd >1 was opened for writing, ditto fd 2. > >So, I've changed the code in cygwin so that it opens all of the standard >file descriptors in read/write mode initially. This seems to mimic linux. > >A more, IMO, robust change for more would be to open /dev/tty for reading >and use that for character input.
The newest snapshot should fix this "problem". cgf (who wonders why he even bothers to release snapshots since no one actually tries them) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
