From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: while running, for example, cat /proc/self/cmdline, no output is generated. strace demonstrates output is written to stdout. for example: [root@server1 root]# cat /proc/self/cmdline [root@server1 root]# [root@server1 root]# strace cat /proc/self/cmdline (...) open("/proc/self/cmdline", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 read(3, "cat\0/proc/self/cmdline\0", 4096) = 23 write(1, "cat\0/proc/self/cmdline\0", 23cat/proc/self/cmdline) = 23 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 (...) strings of the same, however, is correct (strings adds newline termination): [root@server1 root]# strings /proc/self/cmdline strings /proc/self/cmdline [root@server1 root]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cat /proc/self/cmdline 2. 3. Additional info:
Duplicate of 74383, although I'm not sure whether the bug is in bash, terminal emulators or terminfo/termcap descriptions.
This is fixed at least in FC 1 Triage->Close