bug(date): -f with /proc/self/mem errors are ignored
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Hi, uutils mainteners
that is weird i see, mostly maybe some erros ignored to be handled, to reproduce that use
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ ./date -f /proc/self/mem
as i see no errors while the gnu date displays them
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ gnudate -f /proc/self/mem
gnudate: /proc/self/mem: read error: Input/output error
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