David Holland <dholland%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: > I already patched the code a while back so that attempting to defeat > the feature by e.g. linking /root/.lesshst -> /dev/null no longer > trashes the system. This, btw, was one of the more obscure bugs I've encountered. Figuring out why /dev/null had mode 0700 (or similar) and the various things that broke was so bizarre that when I found out it was related to the version of less, I immediately declared that one of my favorite software bugs of all times. > However, it's been suggested, and several people have concurred, that > it ought to be disabled by default. This is easy to do. > > The cost of disabling it by default, however, is that the behavior > diverges from upstream. Are we willing to buy into this? I think we > should, at least for more if not for less. I'd say: Disable it for both and raise the issue with upstream. Thanks! -Jan
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