On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 04:55:28AM +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
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> Hello Again,
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> On 24/11/16 02:52, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
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> >
> > On 23/11/16 09:59, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >> Can you generate a full strace dump ?
> >
> > Yes. Unfortunately I have not yet succeeded to decipher them.
> >
> > There is a `Broken pipe' somewhere.
> > The piping seems to be related to the uncompresion of a `manual.siz.gx'.
>
> There are a myriad of processes: the messages around the `Broken pipe' are:
>
> execve("/bin/gunzip", ["gunzip"], [/* 90 vars */]) = 0
> [...]
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, NULL, {SIG_IGN, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, NULL, {SIG_IGN, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGXCPU, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGXFSZ, NULL, {SIG_IGN, [], 0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x4035c0, [INT TERM XCPU], SA_RESTORER,
> 0x7eff302e1040}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x4035c0, [INT TERM XCPU], SA_RESTORER,
> 0x7eff302e1040}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGXCPU, {0x4035c0, [INT TERM XCPU], SA_RESTORER,
> 0x7eff302e1040}, NULL, 8) = 0
> ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0x7ffef9ddf1c0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for
> device)
> fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=171476, ...}) = 0
> read(0,
> "\37\213\10\0\0\0\0\0\2\3\244\\\331\222\324H\226}\317\257\220\345\274T\233\1\346\3732c\363\240"...,
> 32768) = 32768
> brk(NULL) = 0x669000
> brk(0x68a000) = 0x68a000
> write(1, "#SIXFORMAT GapDocGAP\nHELPBOOKIN"..., 32768) = 32768
> write(1, ".4-1\", [ 20, 4, 1 ], 98, 246, \"l"..., 32768) = 32768
> write(1, " \"35.3-5\", [ 35, 3, 5 ], 310, 46"..., 32768) = 16384
> - --- SIGPIPE {si_signo=SIGPIPE, si_code=SI_USER, si_pid=9643, si_uid=1000}
> ---
> write(1, "033[101X\", \"41.10-2\", \n [ 4"..., 16384) = -1 EPIPE (Broken
> pipe)
> - --- SIGPIPE {si_signo=SIGPIPE, si_code=SI_USER, si_pid=9643, si_uid=1000}
> ---
> write(2, "\ngzip: ", 7) = 7
> write(2, "stdout: Broken pipe\n", 20) = 20
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT TERM XCPU], [], 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> lseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 32768
> close(0) = 0
> close(1) = 0
> close(2) = 0
> exit_group(1) = ?
> +++ exited with 1 +++
>
> [[/bin/gunzip is in fact a shell script that wraps `gzip -d' ]]
>
> It looks like that it happens what is described in the following link:
>
> https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/02/a-very-subtle-bug/
>
> that is to say, python/sage manipulates SIGPIPE in such a way that any gzip
> piping
> becomes hazardous.
Can you confirm that 'CloseStream(stream);' is the call that trigger the
SIGPIPE ? In which case this can be worked around.
Cheers
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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