[PATCH] fix for pipe() on sparc

Rich Felker dalias at libc.org
Wed Aug 20 14:23:04 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:10:30AM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On 19 August 2014 21:11, Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org> wrote:
> > When using something like this:
> >  $ echo foo|grep foo|wc -l
> > with mksh shell, you get an runtime error.
> >
> > Glibc and klibc does not do these extra check.
> > After removing this check using double pipes work fine.
> > Tested with Qemu 2.1.0.
> 
> Applied, thanks!

Is there any explanation for what the patch does and why it's correct?
I suspect it is, but it would be nice to see (in both the patch
proposal and the commit message) an indication of why the change is
deemed correct rather than just "problem symptom observed before, goes
away after patch".

Rich


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