From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vivek Dasmohapatra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: insert-file-contents and fifos Date: 01 May 2002 15:15:37 +0100 Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <871ycwrm2e.fsf@etla.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020262692 23138 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2002 14:18:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 172uvr-000615-00 for ; Wed, 01 May 2002 16:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172uvm-0005JC-00; Wed, 01 May 2002 10:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172utR-0005Fx-00 for ; Wed, 01 May 2002 10:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from news6c-win.server.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.108] helo=news6-win.server.ntlworld.com) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 172utP-0003of-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 01 May 2002 16:15:39 +0200 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by news6-win.server.ntlworld.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA29361; Wed, 1 May 2002 15:15:38 +0100 (BST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.2.247.20 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com Original-X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 1020262538 80.2.247.20 (Wed, 01 May 2002 15:15:38 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 15:15:38 BST Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1082 (insert-file-contents) appears to be unable to read from fifos in emacs21 - emacs20 copes just fine, but the new read_non_regular function in fileio.c appears not to like fifos. Is this already known or being looked at? I'm currently having to resort to: (insert (shell-command-to-string "cat ~/.sig-dyn")) -- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx