Re: error on TTY read: no such file or directory

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

lordzork@lordzork.com wrote:

>>open("/tmp/login-trace", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 
>>0666) = 3
>>fcntl64(2, F_DUPFD, 10)                 = 13
>>close(2)                                = 0
>>dup2(3, 2)                              = 2
>>...
>>ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, 0xbffff8d8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate 
>>ioctl for device)
>>
>>fd 2 does not look like tty, does it? I presume you do exec > 
>>/tmp/login-trace very early in your /etc/zshenv
>>


You noticed it, dd not you? Have you checked your zshenv for stderr 
redrection? (it was to be exec 2> /tmp/login-trace, of course).


>>Still there is something weird going on:
>>
>>write(10, "\r\33[m\33[m\33[m\33[J\n\33[1;30m[ \33[1;37mlc"..., 270) = 270
>>write(10, "\33[K", 3)                   = 3
>>read(10, "l", 1)                        = 1
>>write(10, "l", 1)                       = 1
>>read(10, "s", 1)                        = 1
>>write(10, "\10ls", 3)                   = 3
>>read(10, "syJ\10\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240G\f\10\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
>>1) = 1025
>>
>>Oops. Where does this last line comes from?
>>
>>
> 
> that is  probably where it booted me. i typed ls once and it ran, then
> again and it froze after the first 'l'. 
> 


It was not my question. I do not understand where this data comes from 
and how can read one byte return 1025 bytes. It looks more like a 
contents of readdir() but I have no idea how can it appear on shell input.

-andrej

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