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Re: bash 2.0.5 - Broken pipe for -h large number


Hi,

You should be aware that the "Broken pipe" message is just BASH reporting 
to you which signal (it was told) caused the termination of the program. 
SIGPIPE is sent to programs for a variety of reasons, usually when the gist 
of the error condition is that something sent by the program (to or via a 
pipe, socket or other IPC mechanism) could not be delivered, typically 
because the intended recipient is no longer around to receive it.

In any event, it seems unlikely that this is a BASH or even a Cygwin problem.

Perhaps the number (60000 vs. 200000) must fit in a 16-bit integer, and 
failing that some error condition was raised?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 10:51 2001-06-05, Ting Chong Ma wrote:
>bash 2.0.5 under NT 4.0 SP6A
>I have written a windows console program called sendalarm.exe
>and it accepts -h as an option.
>The bash shell does not support a large number for the -h option
>e.g. this is OK:
>bash-2.05$ sendalarm -A tcma1 -n 91 -s M  -h 60000
>
>but this fail:
>bash-2.05$ sendalarm -A tcma1 -n 91 -s M  -h 200000
>Broken pipe


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