Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:58:58 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pipeline behaviour - changed? Message-ID: <199808312259.WAA01092@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 03:45:51 %2B0100." <19980901034551.A27539@stade.co.uk>
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> Hi.
>
> I recently had a problem installing the latest netscape communicator
> port - the session just sat there, with 'yes' chewing up processor time.
>
> The port makefile contains this:
>
> cd ${WRKSRC} && yes "" | \
> LC_TIME=C MOZILLA_HOME="${NDIR}" ./ns-install
>
> This sort of construct:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> yes | head -2
>
> No longer exits when the head finishes. Anybody else seeing this sort
> of thing with a current 3.0-CURRENT? If so, we might be in for a lot of
> complaints when people start installing netscape.
word:~/work/pupdate>yes | head -2
y
y
word:~/work/pupdate>ps ax |grep yes
word:~/work/pupdate>uname -a
FreeBSD word.smith.net.au 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Aug 18 13:41:54 GMT 1998 root@dingo.cdrom.com:/local0/src/sys/compile/DINGO i386
That's a bit stale, but I don't recall anything that might have affected
that changing just lately. How -current are you?
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