Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc Ballarin <> | Subject | Re: Interesting race condition... | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:40:59 +0000 (UTC) |
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Rob Landley <rob <at> landley.net> writes:
> Oh I can't reproduce it either. (Maybe if I set some kind of loop and left > it running for a few days...)
I could reproduce it on an otherwise idle system (2 GHz Athlon, kernel 2.6.7). On a loaded system the bug did not occur, which certainly indicates a race condition.
Using the following Bash script, the bug appeared 23 times in 122,221 iterations: while [ 1 ];do ps ax | grep hack >> TEST done The bug *seems* to be in bash, since an equivalent script in tcsh had no problems: while ( 1 ) ps ax | grep hack >> TEST2 end This issue has the potential to break a lot of shell scripts in an almost undebugable way. Should someone file a bug report via 'bashbug'? Marc
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