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Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:47:30 +0100 |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> > >
> > > > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> > > > > Paul Eggert writes:
> > > > > > bash -c '(while echo foo; do :; done); echo status=$? >&2' |
> head
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If it eventually outputs "write error: Broken pipe", you have
> SIGPIPE
> > > > > > trapped, and that would explain your problem (which you need
> to track
> > > > > > down). If it prints "status=141" you do not have SIGPIPE
> trapped and
> > > > > > we need to investigate the issue further.
> > > > >
> > > - when run from the Linux console it fails with the broken pipe
> > > error. In that case the pstree chain is like this: init - login - tcsh
> >
> > That's the way it should be.
> > So your login shell is clean,
>
> Are you sure? It seems to me that the right way is to not fail with
> the broken pipe error, but to print 141.
Oh. You're right. I misread.
What version of bash are you using?
Did you compile it yourself?
There was a related bug in bash back in 2004,
so be sure you're using something recent.
Have you tried changing your login shell to bash?
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, (continued)
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/02
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/02
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/02
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/08
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Paul Eggert, 2007/11/08
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Bob Proulx, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/09
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/10
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/10
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/11
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/11/18
- Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/19