Dave Tyson wrote:

> Under 1.5.x if you use 'less /kern/msgbuf' to view kernel messages
> everything works OK and after a few pages of ^@ null characters the
> text is displayed. If you try the same thing under 1.6 or current I
> find that you get the same pages of ^@ null characters and nothing
> else. Doing a 'cat /kern/msgbuf|less' provides a workaround, but it
> would be nice if the original behaviour could be restored. A quick test
> with the 1.5.3 less under current shows the problems still exists and
> points to a change in the behavior of /kern filesystem. Anyone else seen
> (annoyed?) by this. Is it worth a PR?

It's wierder than that even:

	euclid 10> less < /kern/msgbuf | wc
	     203    1168  131056
	euclid 11> less /kern/msgbuf | wc
	"/kern/msgbuf" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? y
	       0       1  123171
	euclid 12> dmesg | wc
	     203    1168    7885
	euclid 13> expr 7885 + 123171
	131056			<- same as first "wc"!

no explaination though at this stage....

Simon.
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