reassign 822605 linux tag 822605 moreinfo found linux/4.5.0-1 thanks You've reported a bug against bugs.debian.org, the psuedopackage which is responsible for the bug tracking system, not general bugs in Debian. For future reference, the correct package for this bug (I think) is probably the linux kernel, which handles named fifos.
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Marco Ippolito wrote: > - Most software I use reading/writing to a named pipe becomes unreliable! How exactly does it become unreliable? > * What was the outcome of this action? > - Seems broken only on Stretch, of the systems I could test. Feel free to > investigate elsewhere too. I'm guessing you're using linux 4.5.0-1? Does 4.5.1 show the same behavior? [4.5.1-1 is what is currently in unstable and testing.] > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > - Setting up and running two sides of a named pipe producer/consumer is > broken: > > Side "Producer": (from a Bash instance) > > rm /tmp/f; mkfifo /tmp/f; n_crashes=0; while true; do echo \ > n_crashes=$n_crashes; (i=0; while true; do echo $((i++)) > /tmp/f; > done); \ > ((n_crashes++)); done > > Side "Consumer": (again, a Bash instance; a separate Bash instance) > > while true; do echo $(< /tmp/f); done Broken in what way? -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
