Strange pipe behaviour in the latest svn version

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 6:53 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > Today I have upgrade to the latest daily snapshot available on
> > > busybox.net and found out a strange problem with some tools
> > > (readlink, cut, ...) in terms of piping outputs to the next
> > > tool in chain.
> > 
> > Did somebody revert
> > http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-16017.patch
> > or is this a new bug?
> 
> Not reverted, it is simply gone along with old build system...

Unfortunately, some of those bits were actually needed. :)

This bug is actually a glibc bug, and probably specific to certain versions of 
glibc at that.  If anybody wants to track down _which_ versions of glibc have 
this problem, maybe the test could be refined a bit.

Or, alternately, the gcc developers could be poked into fixing their darn bug.  
But then anybody using gcc _and_ caring about size has already shown vast 
peversity...

Rob 
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