Re: ls: write error: Broken pipe

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
  > ...
  > > I created a new account with /bin/tcsh as a shell, deleted all the dot
  > > files in that new account, logged in on a linux console and run the
  > > perl command above.  It prints IGNORE.
  > >
  > > tcsh is: tcsh-6.14-15
  > > perl is: perl-5.8.8-23.fc7
  > 
  > Finally!  So that version of tcsh may be at fault.

I built tcsh-6.15 using the F8 rpm, and the problem still occurs with
that one. 

When you tested this, did you try from an account that uses tcsh as
the shell? Because if I start tcsh from bash things work...


  > > So I have an older version of tcsh than you do.
  > >
  > > I looked at the src.rpm for my version of tcsh and it has a patch that
  > > tinkers with signal handling (not with SIGPIPE, but still...). I'll
  > > try to install your version of tcsh tonight, and maybe build my
  > > version without any patches.
  > >
  > >   > If you could reproduce the problem by starting tcsh manually,
  > >   > I'd suggest debugging (or just using strace) tcsh to see where
  > >   > it's misbehaving.
  > >
  > > What should I look for?
  > 
  > In source, look for calls to signal, sigaction, sigprocmask.
  > On recent Linux, they show up in strace output as calls to
  > rt_sigaction and rt_sigprocmask.

strace did not show anything about SIGPIPE.

Thanks for your help!