karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) (03/14/88)
In article <9824@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > Outside of reporting the bug in Ultrix, I think it would be useful for > people to report their experiences, so that we get a feel for which > systems exhibit the problem you mention. OK, sorry. Since I found the problem on both my Unix system at home and the Xenix system at work, I assumed that it was more widespread than it apparently is. The bug appears in Microport System V/286 and on Xenix as supplied by Intel for the Intel 310 multibus '286 box. -- "Weekends were made for programming." -me ..!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/15/88)
Several people have told me that pipes can cause trouble with cpio if
they are open. I have not been able to cause that behavior, but I don't
doubt it for a moment. I repeated my tests as follows, without failure.
/etc/mknode fifo p # create the pipe
sleep 180 > fifo # get it going
ls | cpio -ov > /tmp/x$$ # try a dump
Thanks to several who clarified this.
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bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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