On 11/28/2017 8:12 AM, Houder wrote: > 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 >
`which sort` are you attempting to use? The cygcheck file didn't say. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
