From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 9 12:10:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145051553A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost (billf@localhost) by jade.chc-chimes.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20932; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:09:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:09:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Thomas Schuerger Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat bug In-Reply-To: <199903091040.LAA21691@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Thomas Schuerger wrote: > 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"). Don't mistake bugs for behaviour. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message