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Re: testsuite failure - 193 parallel execution


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: testsuite failure - 193 parallel execution
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:39:45 -0700
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On 07/20/10 11:01, Eric Blake wrote:

> In looking at it further, I'm lost as to where the SIGPIPE is coming
> from; maybe we're facing a bash bug?  Your point, that we should have
> read back all the tokens already, seems valid, particularly since fifo
> writes and reads should be atomic.

System call writes and reads should be atomic, but there's no requirement
that the shell must implement "echo token" as an atomic write of 6 bytes.
If the shell sometimes implements "echo token" as multiple writes, that alone
would explain the problem.

I suggest replacing "echo token" with "echo ''", so that a token
is always a single newline byte.  This may have nothing to do with
your problem, but it should be done anyway, to make the script
more portable.  And if bash or the kernel does have bugs with respect to
atomicity, it will make the script less liable to run into the bugs.



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