Re: tcsh being dodgy, or pipe code ishoos?

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 04:07:45 +0400
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 18:54:11 -0500, Juli Mallett wrote:

> stdout.  Where does stderr come into it?  Yes I know about TTY races

Forget about stderr, it looks like fork race somewhere. Minimal example 
will be

( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + % )

which outputs

+ + 3
2

in rare cases. Note that 

( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + %

never pruduce this bug, so no pipes involved, just ()
Received on Tue Jun 24 2003 - 15:07:48 UTC

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