Hi Rich,
Rich Felker wrote,

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:10:30AM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > On 19 August 2014 21:11, Waldemar Brodkorb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > When using something like this:
> > >  $ echo foo|grep foo|wc -l
> > > with mksh shell, you get an runtime error.
> > >
> > > Glibc and klibc does not do these extra check.
> > > After removing this check using double pipes work fine.
> > > Tested with Qemu 2.1.0.
> > 
> > Applied, thanks!
> 
> Is there any explanation for what the patch does and why it's correct?
> I suspect it is, but it would be nice to see (in both the patch
> proposal and the commit message) an indication of why the change is
> deemed correct rather than just "problem symptom observed before, goes
> away after patch".
 
Sorry, I wanted to add the original author to CC, but have forgotten
it. I can not add any more explanation to the problem. I have done
my best to produce a simple testcase and to run the perl based mksh
testsuite in Qemu and provide Thorsten a backtrace, some
disassembly and a static binary, as I know he has access to some
real sparc hardware.
He analyzed it and suggested this change and I tested it again and
was happy that my system now boots up fine without issues.
At this point I just could had kept the change for myself.
But I think better we have a fix for the problem. I don't know exactly why
the code was added. In a perfect world the programmer had added some
comments while adding assembly code, which usage might not be
obvious for skilled people like you.

best regards
 Waldemar

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