On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 05:48:53PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Note: My simple "cat" change did not solve the problem.
> > But I can't see any special thing in the logs (are they redirected > > somewhere?) > > Does this really fail? help_output=$(3cpio --help) will always read the > full output and therefore 3cpio should not fail with broken pipe. So I > would expect this patch to be a workaround as side effect. You are right. The failure rate was extremely low, maybe I mixed some build logs from the previous run. Now I've tested it again and the failure rate is effectively zero. > Thanks. That confirms my suspicion. grep terminates and 3cpio cannot > write to the pipe any more. Instead of happily quitting, it throws an > error message and exits with code 1. I'll fix 3cpio to handle the broken > pipe case better. Great. If you do that please retitle #1126301 to something more suitable (I believed 3cpio was innocent but after knowing that Rust treats pipes differently I agree that the bug make sense). Thanks.
