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Package: nano
Version: 2.2.4-1, 2.2.2-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
on Debian Lenny (nano 2.0.7-4) nano was AFAIK the only editor which
was capable of editing FIFOs (at least zile and nvi can't edit
FIFOs). In Sid and Squeeze this ability of nano is mostly gone.
In my test case (see below), I wasn't even able to start it with the
contents of the FIFO, in our real life case (a wrapper around nano
which modifies the content before and after editing), nano is still
able to read from the pipe, but no more to write from it.
How to reproduce:
You need two shells (the mentioned wrapper forks for that purpose):
Shell 1 Shell 2
1 $ mkfifo foobar
2 $ echo bla >> foobar
3 $ nano -t foobar
4 Change something, save with C-x
5 $ cat foobar
This works fine on Debian Lenny (nano 2.0.7-4) as well as Ubuntu
Karmic (nano 2.0.9-2), but fails with Debian Sid, Squeeze (both nano
2.2.4-1) and Ubuntu Lucid (nano 2.2.2-1).
So I suspect this regression has been introduced with the 2.1/2.2
series of nano.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400,
'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nano depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
nano recommends no packages.
Versions of packages nano suggests:
pn spell <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Version: 4.3-1
Hey there,
As Benno reported, this has been fixed in the recent 4.3 upload. This
is now in unstable, but won't make it in buster.
Jordi
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