Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:41:48 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> To: 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: <20010211034147.A51972@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102110931450.13234-100000@titanic.medinet.si>; from blaz@amis.net on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:35:43AM %2B0100 References: <200102110819.f1B8Jk430590@earth.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102110931450.13234-100000@titanic.medinet.si>
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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. Barney Wolff On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:35:43AM +0100, Blaz Zupan wrote: > > pkg_add runs tar with the --fast-read option to extract the table of > > contents. When I remove the option pkg_add no longer reports broken > > pipes. When gunzip'ing piped to tar, and tar exits early due to > > the option, gunzip properly gets a 'gzip: stdout: Broken pipe' error. > > > > Maybe 'tar' was changed recently, maybe 'gunzip' was changed recently, > > I don't know. But it isn't a kernel problem. The kernel is doing > > exactly what it is supposed to be doing. > > A simple "cvs diff" between RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE and RELENG_4 reveals, that > gzip has not changed at all, while tar has only grown bzip2 support. > > As Kent suggests, ssh might be the problem. To verify, I have just logged in > through telnet and done a "pkg_add gmake-3.79.1.tgz". And yes indeed, the > broken pipe message disappears. > > So the OpenSSH 2.3.0 seems to be causing the problem. > > Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia > E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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