id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 1777 Can't view device files gotar "Trying to view some device an error is reported: Cannot view: not a regular file In my opinion this should be only a warning and such operation could continue if desired as it worked a long time and a few versions before. ... now it's forbidden {{{ if (!S_ISREG (st.st_mode)) { mc_close (fd); mcview_show_error (view, _("" Cannot view: not a regular file "")); g_free (view->filename); view->filename = NULL; goto finish; } }}} and we have one problem - calculate filesize. fstat return 0 for block devices... as a workaround, we can use '''ftell''' like this {{{ off_t mc_ftell (int fd) { fseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_END); return ftell(fd); } }}}" enhancement new minor Future Releases mcview 4.7.0-pre4 no branch