Re: read bug in head util

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report and patch.
That was reported/fixed just a week or two ago.
A new test release is due out soon.

Wolfram Kleff <address@hidden> wrote:
> there is a little nasty bug in the "head" util.
> It always tries to read complete blocks in function head_bytes.
> This is no problem (except performance loss) for regular files, but leads to
> problems in special files.
> Here is a patch which should fix this problem:
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