On 2017-11-28 10:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 28 08:21, Houder wrote:
On 2017-11-25 14:23, Houder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone seeing this as well? sort goes berzerk on my system when piped
> into
> head (or less) when it is fed with a 'specially prepared' input file.
>
> - only happens on x86_64
> - does not happen for 'LC_COLLATE=C sort tt | head'
>
> 'specially prepared' input file? (see bottom of post).
Anyone ** NOT ** seeing this?
Yes. I just tried it under tcsh and bash with 6000, 8000, and 8150
lines,
and it works for me. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 implies LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[snip}
and then returns to the prompt.
Just trying ... is this a clue to the cause?
Henri
64-@@ trap -p
trap -- '' SIGPIPE # ignore SIGPIPE
64-@@ sort tt | head
abcde 1xxxxx0123456789
abcde 2xxxxx0123456789
abcde 3xxxxx0123456789
abcde 4xxxxx0123456789
abcde 5xxxxx0123456789
abcde 6xxxxx0123456789
abcde 7xxxxx0123456789
abcde 8xxxxx0123456789
abcde 9xxxxx0123456789
abcde 10xxxxx0123456789
sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe # as expected
sort: write error
64-@@ <==== PROMPT RETURNED
64-@@ trap - PIPE # SIGPIPE should result in killing sort ?????
64-@@ sort tt | head
abcde 1xxxxx0123456789
abcde 2xxxxx0123456789
abcde 3xxxxx0123456789
abcde 4xxxxx0123456789
abcde 5xxxxx0123456789
abcde 6xxxxx0123456789
abcde 7xxxxx0123456789
abcde 8xxxxx0123456789
abcde 9xxxxx0123456789
abcde 10xxxxx0123456789
<==== prompt does not return
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