Problem with cat

Sam Liddicott sam at liddicott.com
Wed Mar 15 09:01:58 UTC 2017


On 14 March 2017 at 14:44, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2017-03-14, Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:24:17 +0000 (UTC)
> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That paragraph is wrong (or at least misleading). I've checked the
> >> source code, and 2.6.33 does not update the output file postition (at
> >> least not the version I downloaded from kernels.org nor the version I
> >> got from Atmel). Perhaps the author of that man page had a 2.6.33 with
> >> some 3.0 stuff backported.
> >
> > Please report the bug to them. I've found the man-pages project quite
> > responsive.
>
> Done... thanks for reminding me.  Unfortunately, I can't build/test
> kernels between 2.6.33.7 (sendfile->file broken), and 3.2 (works) to
> find the exact point where the change that correctly sets the output
> file position happened.
>

And as has been said, it may not help if you did; who can know which
patches have been ported anyway.

Sam
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