On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:46:50 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >>> >> Can the behavior be replicated with /bin/sh? > >Worth a try. > Indeed. If the same bug exists in both shells Rocket is likely to fix it sooner than IBM.
>The fact that it's using pipe operators implies the shell is in play. > I *believe* pipe is a kernel facility which shell invokes with C RTL calls (pipe(); fork(); exec(); dup2; ... ). Shell doesn't actually move the data. But there's plenty wiggle room in the options shell supplies to those C RTL calls: it might be able to enable/disable autoconversion or tag the descriptors with CCSIDs (incorrectly?) An IBM expert averred long ago on MVS-OE that the actual conversion is performed by kernel. >As I said, I would take this to Rockets forum which is a more appropriate >place to discuss bash. > >> But does bash supply unsolicited arguments to utilities? >> >> Appendix L describes too many knobs and levers. >> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:00:30 -0500, Michael Babcock wrote: >> >>> I had to add the -B to prevent “head” from doing autoconvert on the file. >>> >>> -bash-4.3# iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 trace_large.log | head -B >>> ******************************************************************************** -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
