From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 11 7:28:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0690537B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (r8cimp@PYANFAR.REM.CMU.EDU [128.2.87.225]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BFSPZ29073; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:28:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:28:23 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Barney Wolff , Blaz Zupan Cc: Matt Dillon , Andrew.Hodgkins@hurlburt.af.mil, kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Proposed makewhatis perl script fix Message-ID: <23180000.981905303@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010211034147.A51972@pit.databus.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, February 11, 2001 03:41:48 -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: +----- | Er, could it possibly be that telnet has been hiding the error | all along? It's really, really hard to see how ssh could | *create* this sort of error. +--->8 Someone mentioned earlier that sshd seemed to be setting SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN in the child shell; that would lead to subprocesses getting EPIPE instead of SIGPIPE, and typically the application reports the former and tar's parent the latter, so the new error behavior would be expected. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message