For the record, my colleague found the issue. There is bug in libc, race
condition between signal and popen.
Thank you for the report
--
Vlad
On 1/2/19 9:48 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:38 PM Vladimir Marek
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Thanks, that's good to have confirmed! It was hoping as much -- it would
>>> have been hard to believe that something this basic is broken on Solaris
>> in
>>> general.
>>
>> Heh :) I am heavy
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:38 PM Vladimir Marek
wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, that's good to have confirmed! It was hoping as much -- it would
> > have been hard to believe that something this basic is broken on Solaris
> in
> > general.
>
> Heh :) I am heavy shell scripter/user and I have found multiple
Hi,
I gave it second look.
I think it could be a flaw in your script after all.
= a.sh =
tmpdir=/var/tmp/FIFOs$$
trap "exec rm -rf $tmpdir" EXIT INT TERM PIPE
mkdir "$tmpdir" || exit
i=0; while test "$((i+=1))" -le 100; do
Op 01-01-19 om 23:47 schreef Vladimir Marek:
[...]
That said, I do use VirtualBox 5.1.22r115126 which is pretty old.
I recently upgraded to VirtualBox 6.0 on Mac OS X 10.11 and the results
are identical.
Putting 0.5s delay anywhere in the loop makes the problem disappear.
Yes, I'd
Hi,
> You'd think that establishing a pipe between two processes is a very basic
> UNIX feature that should work reliably on all UNIX variants.
One would think that _opening_ a file is a very basic UNIX feature ...
:)
> But the following script seems to break consistently on Solaris and
On 12/31/18 12:37 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> You'd think that establishing a pipe between two processes is a very basic
> UNIX feature that should work reliably on all UNIX variants.
>
> But the following script seems to break consistently on Solaris and
> variants (SunOS kernels) when executed
You'd think that establishing a pipe between two processes is a very
basic UNIX feature that should work reliably on all UNIX variants.
But the following script seems to break consistently on Solaris and
variants (SunOS kernels) when executed by bash, ksh93, or dash. All it
does is make 100
