> There is a race condition. > > When the redirection happens, the pipe output fd is closed so that > the head will get EOF. > > However, at the same time /bin/echo writes test to /tmp/file. > > However, if you are running ksh93, then doing > set -o pipefile > before the pipeline will eliminate the race condition since > the parent shell that waits for the pipeline needs to > know the exit status for /bin/echo before the pipeline command > completes.
Thanks, David. Now it's clear. Leonardo _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
