From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 30 5: 9:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from goanga.com (goanga.com [193.231.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC6437B419; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abc.ro (goanga.com [193.231.240.30]) by goanga.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3UC9cg80311; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:09:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andrei@abc.ro) Message-ID: <3CCE8982.6A915F2B@abc.ro> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:09:38 +0300 From: ANdrei Organization: Cronon AG - tech department X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, ro, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FS@FREEBSD.ORG, bugs@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: xterm & directory cat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org why is it possible to do a "cat" o a directory in freebsd? and, if this is intended (for whatever purpose, but i can't think of any reasonable...), maybe others can verify that this crashes your xterm, if you run this command form a xterm under X... actually, it changes your character set (or whatever, i'm not much into how this works), but the effect is that you can't use your terminal any more (in a normal way :) hope i'm not missing smtg, and this really s a bug, and i'm posting to the right lists... feedback is appreciated, but please cc me, cause i'm not subscribed... aloha, ANdrei -- ----------------------------------[ http://www.goanga.com ]-- Never take life seriously. _ _ Nobody gets out alive anyway. o' \.=./ `o (o o) -----------------------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message