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I did some testing on the operation of 'less' in single user mode.<br>It is working, however when you start it, it gives you the following warning:<br>WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional.<br><br>None the less, it seems to be working.<br>I tested this on a Dec. 3rd build of illumos in single user mode.<br><br>Therefore, 'more' can be removed, so there is one less closed bin object.<br>All eyes aim on 'pax'.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">--- Original message --- <br><b>Subject:</b> [illumos-Developer] more & less <br><b>From:</b> Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86@gmail.com> <br><b>To:</b> <developer@lists.illumos.org> <br><b>Date:</b> Thursday, 16/12/2010 10:12 AM<br><br>On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 12:22 -1000, Samuel Younge wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> The only bizarre 'more' dependency in illumos that I am aware of is<br> that 'less' does not work by default after transitioning to single<br> user mode.<br> This is strange as both 'more' and 'less' exist in the /usr/bin PATH.<br> I am not sure what that is about, I have not taking the time to<br> investigate, but illumos does need a functional pager for single user<br> mode.<br> That is a minor issue though, I suspect.<br></blockquote><br>That's a strange one. less shouldn't have any external dependencies, so<br> I don't know why it wouldn't work in single user mode. Can you describe<br>what actually happens when you try to use it.<br><br>I'd guess that resolving any problem here would be a requirement for<br>making less a replacement for either /bin/more or xpg4/bin/more.<br><br> - Garrett<br></blockquote><br>I remember having a discussion with Jürgen Keil a couple of years back<br>on this exact issue, as I had put less into my mini-root when I was<br>debugging some problematic Solaris 10 installs.<br><br>Jürgen said the issue was that stderr was not correctly set for single user<br>mode, and required to exec the shell with appropriate redirection. I'll see<br>if I can find it in my archives.<br><br>Ben<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Developer mailing list<br>Developer@lists.illumos.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/developer">http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/developer</a><br></blockquote><br>
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