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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: segfault on 'echo $(< /dev/kmsg )' in zsh-5.0.2 and git
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:42:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738qc8hbc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEWfL_TiRLYLbhTuohZxw_XoN1z+dem-zxYODYepk8y1mooV3Q@mail.gmail.com> (Marien Zwart's message of "Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:53:12 +1000")

Marien Zwart <marien.zwart@gmail.com> writes:

> So if it's not too hard it'd be nice for zsh to
> survive fdopen failing, although there's something to be said for
> fdopen (glibc) or the fd (linux kernel) being broken for this specific
> crash (on /dev/kmsg).

Interestingly, GNU head fails too:

% head -c1 </dev/kmsg   
head: error reading 'standard input': Invalid argument

strace shows:
read(0, 0x7fffe2ee6d70, 1)              = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

It seems /dev/kmsg only allows to read for at least one line in thefile:

% head -n1 /dev/kmsg | wc -c          
42
% head -c41 </dev/kmsg       
head: error reading 'standard input': Invalid argument
% head -c42 </dev/kmsg 
6,0,0,-;Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13 10:53 Marien Zwart
2013-08-13 21:40 ` Axel Beckert
2013-08-14 14:42 ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]

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