From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 23:02:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25272 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:02:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles231.castles.com [208.214.165.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25233 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01092; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:59:04 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808312259.WAA01092@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: aw1@stade.co.uk cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pipeline behaviour - changed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 03:45:51 +0100." <19980901034551.A27539@stade.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:58:58 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message