[parisc-linux] Re: pipes

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:27:14PM +1100, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:
> 
> > Don't think so.  The read is issued at 14:36:08, no data is available,
> > so 10 seconds later the alarm goes off, and read returns -512.  Strace
> > completes that line of output and reports the SIGALRM.
> 
> Ah, thanks for the clarification.  So it comes back to data being mangled
> in the pipe or somesuch.
> 
> Hmm, strace -f now works with your mods to the kernel, so now I can look
> at the other end.  
> 
> 131   22:37:47 write(5, "cd /scsi/tmp\nfile=sys/stat.h\nif ( test  -r types/vxTypesOld.h ) > /dev/null 2>&1\nthen echo TRUE\nelse echo FALSE\nfi\n\necho\necho ShElL-OuTpUt-HaS-bEeN-cOmPlEtEd\n", 158 <unfinished ...>
> 132   22:37:47 read(0, "cd /scsi/tmp\nfile=sys/stat.h\nif ( test  -r types/vxTypesOld.h ) > /dev/null 2>&1\nthen echo TRUE\nelse echo FALSE\nfi\n\necho\necho ShElL-OuTpUt-HaS-bEeN-cOmPlEtEUUUU\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\367\4\0\0\0\0\0PUU\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 156) = 558544
> 132   22:37:47 chdir("/scsi/tmp")       = 0
> 
> Bingo.  Look at that read.

Nice one!  I wonder if that <unfinished ...> is significant.  You can
tell strace to write each processes trace to a seperate file, which
might show if that write is really blocked or it is just straces way of
handling output, and you can use -tt to get finer grained timestamping.

How do I reproduce this?  Is it as simple as cd <somewhere in a gcc
build tree> && ./fixincludes, or is it more complex?

Richard