1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/less.c b/miscutils/less.c
index 92d0f3271..e4f8ab979 100644
--- a/miscutils/less.c
+++ b/miscutils/less.c
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static int getch_nowait(void)
 
         /* We have kbd_fd in O_NONBLOCK mode, read inside read_key()
          * would not block even if there is no input available */
-        rd = read_key(kbd_fd, kbd_input);
+        rd = read_key(kbd_fd, kbd_input, /*timeout off:*/ -2);
         if (rd == -1) {
                 if (errno == EAGAIN) {
                         /* No keyboard input available. Since poll() did return,