Subject: Re: bug#18370: insert-file-contents: forbids also beg, end for non-regular (special) files

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:19:16 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe this is related to bug#9800, still unfixed after this change.

I think it's somewhat unrelated -- the /proc files are "regular" files,
they just tend to "grow" while reading.  I think the solution sketched
in that bug report sounds OK.

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