Re: cat fionread usage bug?

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I was just looking at this line in cat.c: http://url.ie/1aq1
>
>     if (input_pending)
>         write_pending (outbuf, &bpout);
>
> Shouldn't that be?
>
>     if (!input_pending)
>         write_pending (outbuf, &bpout);

Oh!  You're right.
That's a bug (mine): disabled optimization.

> The checkin I think is 790892db:

Yes, indeed.  Here's the URL:

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=790892db

Have you tried to demonstrate the unwanted behavior?