Re: [PATCH] pager: drop "wait for output to run less" hack

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2012, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPQNSbk4h8bbhk92XAHVt5zVMCs3JLdjMf8P0wGD3wmyVEE1Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120605160157.GA20582@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 05:52:24PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> > I checked, and even RHEL5 is on less 436. So besides people on antique
>> > "I installed less from source more than 5 years ago" systems, my only
>> > concern would be that some other pager depends on this hack in a weird
>> > way. But I have never heard of such a thing, so...
>>
>> On my RHEL5 box at work:
>> $ less --version
>> less 394
>> Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman
>
> Then I think you are not following the bug-fix updates, as they've
> issued several updates based on 436:
>

I don't know what exactly the setup is, other than that it's set up to match the RHEL5 setup of a major customer with a very conservative upgrade policy.