From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 9 2:41:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33FD21505F for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999020800) with ESMTP id LAA27667 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:40:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.1]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999020800) with ESMTP id LAA26112 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:40:59 +0100 (CET) Received: (from schuerge@localhost) by wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.1/wjp/19980821) id LAA21691 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:40:58 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Schuerger Message-Id: <199903091040.LAA21691@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Subject: cat bug To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:40:57 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! When using "cat" on a directory instead of a file, "cat" will output garbage characters. I haven't found anything in the manpages about it, but I think it should produce an error instead, just like Solaris or Linux does it (e.g. Linux says: "cat: /tmp: Is a directory"). Ciao, Thomas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message