Re: 2.9.11?

[Daniel J Sebald]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I looked at the associated processes and found:
>
>  5313 pts/2    00:03:08 octave
>  5508 pts/2    00:00:00 sort <defunct>
>
> So, for some reason that sort process is suspending.  Not sure why such 
> a simple routine would fail.  Some confusion in the piping and in/out 
> streams?  Maybe the coordination of fclose(in) and fgets(out) is off.  
> I.e., the input stream needs to finish closing before the output stream 
> is ready, if not maybe sort says "hey"?

Which raises a point.  What if the system doesn't have the "sort" command on it 
somewhere?  I've temporarily removed /sbin/sort and, yes, the syscalls.cc test 
hangs.  So, there maybe should be a timeout or test for existence in any case.

Dan