On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:20:33PM +1000, Sean wrote: > > I'm getting the same thing; what shell are you using? I changed my shell > > on one machine from /bin/tcsh to /usr/local/bin/bash and problem > > disappeared. > > That this workaround helps confirms that masked/ignored SIGPIPE is the > problem. From a few shells I have tried, bash and zsh reset SIGPIPE to > caught or default even if it was ignored (only in interactive mode, > however), while tcsh, sh, mksh and ksh93 leave it ignored. > > The underlying problem is the program that is passing the ignored/masked > signal to child processes. Please check if the problem occurs with > various ways to log in (text console, ssh, xterm, etc). Things like PAM > modules may also cause problems here. > > For example, sshd sets SIGPIPE to ignored, but resets it back to default > before starting a child process, so assuming I read the code correctly > it does not cause problems.
Hm. pooma% cat ... In the other shell, pooma% ps auxww | grep cat kostik 41346 0.0 0.0 5824 1084 2 I+ 11:34PM 0:00.00 cat pooma% procstat -i 41346 | grep PIPE 41346 cat PIPE --- pooma% sudo cat ... and pooma% ps auxww | grep cat root 41360 0.0 0.0 5824 1084 2 S+ 11:36PM 0:00.01 cat pooma% procstat -i 41366 | grep PIPE 41366 cat PIPE --- And now oma% sudo -k cat ~ Password: ... and pooma% ps auxww | grep cat root 41387 0.0 0.0 5824 1084 2 S+ 11:39PM 0:00.01 cat pooma% procstat -i 41387 | grep PIPE 41387 cat PIPE -I- This would describe both the observed behaviour and the reason why I was unable to repeat it after the first run. sudo changelog has a promising entry from 2010-06-09, but I definitely not going to read sudo code. security/sudo maintainer Cc:ed.
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