Package: nano Version: 2.2.4-1, 2.2.2-1 Severity: normal Hi,
on Debian Lenny (nano 2.0.7-4) nano was AFAIK the only editor which was capable of editing FIFOs (at least zile and nvi can't edit FIFOs). In Sid and Squeeze this ability of nano is mostly gone. In my test case (see below), I wasn't even able to start it with the contents of the FIFO, in our real life case (a wrapper around nano which modifies the content before and after editing), nano is still able to read from the pipe, but no more to write from it. How to reproduce: You need two shells (the mentioned wrapper forks for that purpose): Shell 1 Shell 2 1 $ mkfifo foobar 2 $ echo bla >> foobar 3 $ nano -t foobar 4 Change something, save with C-x 5 $ cat foobar This works fine on Debian Lenny (nano 2.0.7-4) as well as Ubuntu Karmic (nano 2.0.9-2), but fails with Debian Sid, Squeeze (both nano 2.2.4-1) and Ubuntu Lucid (nano 2.2.2-1). So I suspect this regression has been introduced with the 2.1/2.2 series of nano. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nano depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand nano recommends no packages. Versions of packages nano suggests: pn spell <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
