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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:28:23 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>, Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Andrew.Hodgkins@hurlburt.af.mil, kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RE: Proposed makewhatis perl script fix
Message-ID:  <23180000.981905303@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010211034147.A51972@pit.databus.com>

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On Sunday, February 11, 2001 03:41:48 -0500, Barney Wolff 
<barney@pit.databus.com> wrote:
+-----
| Er, could it possibly be that telnet has been hiding the error
| all along?  It's really, really hard to see how ssh could
| *create* this sort of error.
+--->8

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.

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brandon s. allbery     [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]   allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator        [WAY too many hats]         allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                                   KF8NH
carnegie mellon university     ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]



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