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:On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:43:44PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote:
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:> Is anyone else seeing this?
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:Yes, it's a known bug in OpenSSH. There's a patch in the PR database,
:I don't have the number handy, and haven't tried it myself.
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:Kris
It's not a bug with OpenSSH, it's a bug with 'makewhatis'. The
'makewhatis' perl script is closing the input descriptor without
draining all the input. If the gzcat writing the descriptor does
not use a large enough buffer, the gzcat's write() will then fail.
This is not a bug with gzcat or a bug due to the pipe being too small
(there is no 'right' size for the pipe), it's a bug with 'makewhatis',
and a very easy bug to fix too. Since other people are reporting
this (I reported this problem in early January), I'll go ahead and fix
the perl script.
-Matt
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