Re: Proposed makewhatis perl script fix

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent Stewart writes:
> 
> 
> Blaz Zupan wrote:
> > 
> > > :Actually, I don't think it fixed everything. There have been ports
> > > :that also had problems with piping to tar and broken pipes. It
> > > :wouldn't surprise me if the makewhatis problem was only a little piece
> > > :of what is broken.
> > > :
> > > :Kent
> > >
> > >     makewhatis is just makewhatis... it has nothing to do with tar.
> > >
> > >     When you tar something up, tar writes full blocks.  But when you unta
> r
> > >     something the actual end of the archive may occur in the middle of a
> > >     block.  tar will close the input descriptor 'early' in this case,
> > >     potentially before gunzip or uncompress manage to write the last bloc
> k
> > >     of zeros.
> > 
> > I also don't believe that this is the real fix - there is something fishy
> > going on in stable. I just upgraded all of our servers from 4.2-RELEASE to
> > 4.2-STABLE and I see the following messages upon installing *any* package:
> > 
> > /home/blaz# pkg_add gmake-3.79.1.tgz
> > 
> > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> > tar: child returned status 1
> /home/blaz#
> > 
> > The package actually appears to install and work fine. I also noticed simil
> ar
> > messages from gzip during "make" on a port, but again the port built and
> > installed fine after that.
> > 
> > So no, your makewhatis patch only appears to be a bandaid, but there is
> > something going on deeper (possibly in the kernel) that was not there in
> > 4.2-RELEASE.
> 
> Were you using ssh to login on to the computers when you were doing the
> package/port work? That seems to be the common thread from my end. At
> least, the broken pipes didn't start occuring until the version of
> Openssh was updated. If I telnet and do my work no problem; however, if
> I use ssh, then I see broken pipes.

Could it be some interaction between -STABLE and OpenSSH 2.3.0?  I 
installed OpenSSH 2.3.0 on some 4.2-RELEASE systems, including the 
src/secure bits, and have had no broken pipes problems when using ssh.


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