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Re: echo vs. ls race condition?
Fred Kulack <kulack@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Interesting tests. I still can't get it to fail...
Note _I_ can't get it to fail with only 10 subdirs -- 100 or 200 are
much more reliable at producing the problem. . .
> What terminal are you using? Perhaps there's something weird going on with
> flow control as descriptors are dup'd for the utilities there?
> I'm using plain old winblows console.
I can reproduce using windows console plus bash
> Did you try the regular echo instead of the builtin? It may have different
> characteristics
> with regard to this.
OK, so _that's_ interesting -- using /bin/echo _and_ running under
windows console I _cannot_ reproduce. Either running under rxvt _or_
using builtin echo produces the problem. Also, using /bin/sh to run
the loop does _not_ reproduce the problem, even with builtin echo.
Here's a hack way to test for the bug automatically, by the way:
> command ls -d * | while read d; do /bin/echo -e "\n-$d-"; ls $d ; done > xxx
> egrep -A2 'aaa' xxx| tr -d '\012' | sed 's/--/\
/g' | egrep 'aaa.*aaa'
> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 francis 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
> cygcheck -cd bash
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
bash 2.05b-16
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