Re: proc and less
>Well, I discovered today that there is nothing wrong with my proc
>filesystem. The problem seems to be with less. I had to create a new user
>to figure this out, since all my current users alias more to less. If I
>do "more /proc/filesystems" I get the normal list of allowed filesystems.
>If, however, I do "less /proc/filesystems" I get what appears to be an
>empty file.
>Is this a bug in less? (Or a feature)
If I had to take a stab:
/proc/filesystems has no oddball characters (like a leading ^D or some
such stupidity). less displays its percentage based on filesize,
which the proc filesystem reports as 0 (for filesystems, at least). I
assume that less uses the filesize to truncate it.
I'd call it a feature of less conflicting with a bug in proc.
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