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Re: install/56303: On a fresh installation, /tmp on sparc64 is not sticky
The following reply was made to PR install/56303; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, martin%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/56303: On a fresh installation, /tmp on sparc64 is not
sticky
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:50:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Roland Illig wrote:
> Am 12.07.2021 um 21:05 schrieb Andreas Gustafsson:
>> For example, if I escape to a shell during set extraction by typing
>> control-z, manually kill the gzip -dc process, and exit the shell,
>> sysinst appears to continue like nothing happened and says all sets
>> extracted successfully. Can you reproduce this?
>
> Sounds plausible to me. A simpler reproducer is:
>
> $ cat | head
>
> and in another shell:
> $ pkill cat
>
> After that, the pipeline 'cat | head' has exit status 0. If I remember
> correctly, progress(1) feeds tar(1), via a pipeline, so that may be the
> same scenario. In my example the exit status is 0 because head(1) calls
> read(2), which returns 0 without any error, and that is of course
> interpreted as EOF.
>
Maybe sysinst should do `set -o pipefail' on all its pipelined commands?
-RVP
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