gnu/75662: PR: less -f behavior contradicts man page

[Joshua Lokken]

>Number:         75662
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       less -f behavior contradicts man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 30 16:30:32 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Network Administrator
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD kenny.okken.local 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0:
Wed Dec 29 18:08:45 CST 2004 root@:/usr/obj/data/src/sys/KENNY i386


>Description:
   The man page for less(1) says:

   -f or --force
      Forces non-regular files to be opened.  (A non-regular file is a
      directory or a device special file.)  Also suppresses the  warn-
      ing message when a binary file is opened.  By default, less will
      refuse to open non-regular files.

   However, if passed the -f or --force flags, less does not open a
   directory.

>How-To-Repeat:
   
   # less -f <directory_name>
   <directory_name> is a directory

   # less --force <directory_name>
   <directory_name> is a directory
   
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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