In the last episode (Apr 08), Lars Eggert said: > I'm doing encrypted nightly dumps over the network to an NFS file system, > i.e., dump | bzip2 | bdes > nfs. > > Since about a week ago, I see occasional errors from bdes ("bdes: > fwrite error at 8"). Anyone have a hunch what's going on here? I'm > wondering if this is something that started when I upgraded to 7.2- > PRERELEASE... [..] > DUMP: 34.16% done, finished in 0:48 at Wed Apr 8 04:46:41 2009 > bdes: fwrite error at 8 > DUMP: 38.56% done, finished in 0:47 at Wed Apr 8 04:51:17 2009
Two bugs: if fwrite fails, there's no sense in continuing to encrypt, and it should print the error it got. Apply this patch and try again: Index: bdes.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/secure/usr.bin/bdes/bdes.c,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.9 bdes.c --- bdes.c 10 Feb 2005 14:47:06 -0000 1.9 +++ bdes.c 8 Apr 2009 14:32:43 -0000 @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ #define READ(buf, n) fread(buf, sizeof(char), n, stdin) #define WRITE(buf,n) \ if (fwrite(buf, sizeof(char), n, stdout) != n) \ - warnx("fwrite error at %d", n); + err(1, "fwrite error at %d", n); /* * global variables and related macros After patching, the following test commands should print a single usefull error instead of a stream of useless ones. $ trap '' PIPE $ bdes -k asd < /boot/kernel/kernel | dd of=/dev/null count=1 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"