> > echo foo | troff >&-
Erh, yeah, that's… probably gonna cause issues... I get the same error you reported earlier, but why on Earth are you closing the file descriptor? On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 06:31, <hacke...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > I think there may be a race condition caused by the groff pipeline. Just to > be sure, please try > > echo foo | troff >&- > > My earlier command was causing troff to dump core when its stdout was > closed (by grops exiting) before it finished writing. > > —b9 > > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:04 AM G. Branden Robinson < > g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > At 2020-09-28T03:44:41+1000, John Gardner wrote: > > > The error I get with groff 1.22.4 is different: > > > > > > $ echo foo | groff -Pbar > > > grops: can't open file 'bar' > > > > I can't reproduce this either, with groff 1.22.4 (Debian) or groff git > > HEAD. > > > > Regards, > > Branden > > >