Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:12:04 -0800 From: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> To: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are pipes broken in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20010122111204.B277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010122140220.G57772@stat.Duke.EDU>; from sean@stat.Duke.EDU on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:02:20PM -0500 References: <20010122105801.A277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <20010122140220.G57772@stat.Duke.EDU>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> Steve Sizemore stated:
> : For the last week or so, all of the kernels that I've built have been
> : having trouble with pipes. Port extractions fail, makewhatis fails,
> : all sorts of things generate error messages. The simplest example is
> : tar - e.g.
> : # tar tzvf /usr/ports/distfiles/cfengine-1.6.1.tar.gz >/dev/null
> :
> : gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> : tar: child returned status 1
> :
> : gunzip, followed by tar xf, works just fine, so I don't think it's a
> : gzip or tar problem. Besides, other things fail which don't
> : (apparently) use gzip or tar, but do use pipes. And, not all pipes,
> : fail, but I haven't been able to determine what causes some to fail.
> :
> : This occurs on both intel and alpha.
> :
> : I have to believe that this is something local to my setup - I haven't
> : seen anyone else discuss it on the list. Still I've tried almost
> : everything I can think of, even dropping back to a GENERIC kernel, and
> : still see the same behavior. Right now, I'm re-cvsupping the sources,
> : and I'll try building GENERIC from virgin sources, but, in the
> : meanwhile, does anyone have a clue what might be the problem?
>
> Steve-
>
> Is this over ssh connection? I think something weird is happening
> with pipes and openssh 2.3.0p1 MFC.
>
> Not sure if it has been addressed or not.
>
> S
> --
> Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU
> Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419
> Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594
Yes, in fact, it is. I hadn't even considered ssh as a possibility,
since almost everything I do is over an ssh connection. I just tried
some things while logged into the console, and everything seems to
work just fine.
Thanks for the clue. Now, who do we need to bother to get this
addressed?
Steve
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