tee piping to head gives error message (also with snapshot 20050206)

Christian Weinberger christian.weinberger@directbox.com
Tue Feb 8 16:53:00 GMT 2005


Here's
> a test on a file with 4207 lines in it.....
> 
> dk <at> mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt  | tee tmp2.txt  | head -4100 >
/dev/nu
> ll
> tee: write error
> dk <at> mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt  | tee tmp2.txt  | head -4100 >
/dev/nu
> ll
> dk <at> mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt  | tee tmp2.txt  | head -4100 >
/dev/nu
> ll
> dk <at> mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt  | tee tmp2.txt  | head -4100 >
/dev/nu
> ll

I reproduced this bahaviour with the most recent snapshot 20050206.

$ cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.1/manual.txt | tee tmp2.txt | head -4100
     > /dev/null
tee: standard output: Broken pipe
tee: write error

Unfortunately, the recent fix of cgf in the piping code seems not to fix this
isssue.

Regards,
Christian


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