From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:35:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] notice error exit from pager
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxdAWvPDV3iYtuoQhUe6=yKUaWSX8kw2UTujq5Yckj9ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110726210401.GA25207@toss.lan>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
>
> No simple solution for (1) comes to mind. I am not sure if this bug
> is still relevant. I could not reproduce it here with less version
> 436. If this bug was fixed a long time ago, maybe we can remove the
> workaround by now?

Hmm. I can confirm that it doesn't happen for me either any more,
although I don't know if that is an actual less bugfix, or it was
timing-dependent.

That said, the workaround has other nice properties too, like delaying
the screen cleaning that "less" often does. So I don't know if we
really want to get rid of it.

> Number (2) can be solved by not sending error output to the pager.

I think your patch looks reasonable.

                  Linus