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Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64)


On 11/28/2017 8:12 AM, Houder wrote:
> On 2017-11-28 10:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov 28 08:21, Houder wrote:
>>> On 2017-11-25 14:23, Houder wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Anyone seeing this as well? sort goes berzerk on my system when piped
>>> > into
>>> > head (or less) when it is fed with a 'specially prepared' input file.
>>> >
>>> >  - only happens on x86_64
>>> >  - does not happen for 'LC_COLLATE=C sort tt | head'
>>> >
>>> > 'specially prepared' input file? (see bottom of post).
>>>
>>> Anyone ** NOT ** seeing this?
>>
>> Yes.  I just tried it under tcsh and bash with 6000, 8000, and 8150
>> lines,
>> and it works for me.  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 implies LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [snip}
> 
>> and then returns to the prompt.
> 
> Just trying ... is this a clue to the cause?
> 
> Henri
> 
> 64-@@ trap -p
> trap -- '' SIGPIPE # ignore SIGPIPE
> 64-@@ sort tt | head
> abcde    1xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    2xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    3xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    4xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    5xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    6xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    7xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    8xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    9xxxxx0123456789
> abcde   10xxxxx0123456789
> sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe # as expected
> sort: write error
> 64-@@ <==== PROMPT RETURNED
> 
> 64-@@ trap - PIPE # SIGPIPE should result in killing sort ?????
> 64-@@ sort tt | head
> abcde    1xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    2xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    3xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    4xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    5xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    6xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    7xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    8xxxxx0123456789
> abcde    9xxxxx0123456789
> abcde   10xxxxx0123456789
>   <==== prompt does not return
> 

`which sort` are you attempting to use?  The cygcheck file didn't say.

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