Re: 64bit startup

[Sergey Bugaev]

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 03 janv. 2024 21:56:54 +0300, a ecrit:
> > perhaps I need to try two of them in parallel and some I/O-heavy
> > workload in the background, as you're saying.
>
> Yes, that's needed to raise the probability of the bug.

I'm still unable to reproduce this, it's been running for 10+ hours at
this point. That's two copies of it, and unrelated activity in the
background.

> > Could it be that the two strings are actually different (something
> > being wrong with pipes perhaps)?
>
> I tried
>
> A=a ; time while /usr/bin/\[ "$A" = a ] ; do A="$(echo -n `echo a` )" ; done 
> ; echo $A
>
> The output is empty. But yes, that could be some missing flush or such
> in pipes.

Try

A=abcd ; time while /usr/bin/\[ "$A" = abcd ] ; do A="$(echo -n `echo
a``echo b`)$(echo -n `echo c``echo d`)" ; done ; echo $A

perhaps?

Sergey