Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:03:04PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: >> #!/usr/bin/bsh >> mkfifo smoke_pipe >> tail -f smoke_pipe >/dev/null & >> cat chicken_monster.txt >smoke_pipe >> -- snip -- >> >> In theory the "tail -f" should never exit and therefore the exit code >> 141 for the "cat" line is something I don't understand... > > Indeed, there should never be a broken pipe in that case unless there > were a bug in tail. > > But I do see different behavior in ksh93 vs Bourne shell w.r.t. SIGPIPE > (see my previous messages). > > Nico
I can't reproduce this in ksh, ksh93, bash, or sh
