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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] less: respect -E (quit at EOF)
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2013-10-16 17:52:21
Message-ID: 201310161952.21735.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Friday 13 September 2013 23:13, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> less displays -E in help text, but it's not doing anything. Make it quit
> less when the last lines of the file have been printed.

Buggy. Try this command:

{ sleep 1; cat busybox_unstripped.map; sleep 1; } | ./busybox less -E

in the build tree. less will exit immediately, even though
not entire input is seen yet.

You probably want to also check that (eof_error <= 0).

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vda
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