Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils