Hi Steve, On 11/01/13 15:56, Steve Friedl wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm the writer of the blog post that raised this issue, I had already posted > an issue for the tracker before I blogged about it for Google. > > I believe that it's *only* a documentation issue, because even though the > behavior is somewhat unconventional for a UNIX/Linux system, it works now on > all the systems you support, and that means it's probably too painful (and > unnecessary) to change. > > It does occur to me that the code could be changed a bit so that if gbak > gets the EPIPE error, the failure message could somehow mention that, as it > would probably give a better searchable error, but mucking with the code is > a lot more work (and risk) than just enhancing the docs. > > I appreciate the consideration you folks have given to this issue. > > Steve
This has been fixed and the latest docs are online for your delectation here (HTML) http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/gbak.html and here (PDF) http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/Firebird-gbak.pdf Enjoy and thanks for bringing it to my attention. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
