From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:09:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: drop "wait for output to run less" hack Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120605160157.GA20582@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jeff King wrote: > 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 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.