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#22096
25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display
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Reported by: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:41:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #17 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:19:32 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 22096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
>> > (info "(elisp) Reading from Files") suggests I should be able to read
>> > from a FIFO.
>>
>> I guess you mean this part:
>>
>> It is possible to read a special file (such as a FIFO or an I/O
>> device) with `insert-file-contents', as long as REPLACE and VISIT
>> are `nil'.
>>
>> It seems this is no longer true, and we have to fix the manual to that
>> effect.
>
> Or maybe that text just gets the value of VISIT wrong: the code in
> question is very old, and always signaled an error for non-regular
> files when VISIT is nil.
Supposedly (according to the docstring) BEG and END have to be nil if
VISIT is t, so I should probably be getting an error about supplying
invalid arguments.
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