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Re: bash incorrectly handles 'echo' + SIGPIPE under some situations on L


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bash incorrectly handles 'echo' + SIGPIPE under some situations on Linux
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:22:33 -0500
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On 1/5/16 11:47 AM, cks@cs.toronto.edu wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> If Bash writes to stdout with the built in echo and gets a SIGPIPE,
> it can incorrectly buffer and then repeat this would-have-been output
> in at least $(...) things invoked in a cleanup function and in fact
> in some other contexts as well. To see this in action, create the
> following script as /tmp/repro:
> 
>       #!/bin/bash
>       function cleanup() {
>               r1=$(/bin/echo one)
>               r2=$(/bin/echo two)
>               echo $r1 '!' $r2 1>&2
>               #echo $r1 '!' $r2 >>/tmp/logout
>       }
>       trap cleanup EXIT
>       sleep 1
>       echo final
> 
> Run it as '/tmp/repro | false'. The output produced is the clearly
> incorrect:
>       $ /tmp/repro | false
>       final
>       one final ! two final

Thanks for the report.  This appears to be easily reproducible on Linux.

Adding a call to fpurge() to discard buffered output on stdout before
dup2() replaces file descriptor 1 in the child process fixes it.

Chet
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