From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 11 18:55:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pit.databus.com (p101-45.acedsl.com [160.79.101.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEC237B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1C2tPF54997; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:55:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from barney) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:55:25 -0500 From: Barney Wolff To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: Barney Wolff , Blaz Zupan , Matt Dillon , Andrew.Hodgkins@hurlburt.af.mil, kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Proposed makewhatis perl script fix Message-ID: <20010211215525.A54971@pit.databus.com> References: <20010211034147.A51972@pit.databus.com> <23180000.981905303@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <23180000.981905303@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>; from allbery@ece.cmu.edu on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:28:23AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If it's any comfort, I just noticed that Openssh 2.3.0 installed on an Irix system does the same thing, so at least it's not something FreeBSD did to it. I agree that the openssh behavior should be changed, but luckily the error message is likely to be just cosmetic unless the pipe writer does something destructive on EPIPE. Barney On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:28:23AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > Someone mentioned earlier that sshd seemed to be setting SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN > in the child shell; that would lead to subprocesses getting EPIPE instead > of SIGPIPE, and typically the application reports the former and tar's > parent the latter, so the new error behavior would be expected. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message