Subject: kern/13774: NEW_PIPE failure after 1MB data
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Geoff C.Wing <gcw@primenet.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/23/2001 23:37:35
>Number:         13774
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       NEW_PIPE failure after 1MB data
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 23 06:35:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Geoff C. Wing
>Release:        ~2001/08/20
>Organization:
Geoff Wing : <gcw@pobox.com>
Rxvt Stuff : <gcw@rxvt.org>
Zsh Stuff  : <gcw@zsh.org>
>Environment:
System: NetBSD c.primenet.com.au 1.5X NetBSD 1.5X (C) #0: Tue Aug 21 23:01:27 EST 2001 gcw@ruby.primenet.com.au:/usr/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/C i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Problem exhibited with kernels compiled with NEW_PIPE.  Other
	kernels work.

	% wc Mail/somemail
	  317373  601445 21912098 Mail/somemail
	% tail -n 50000 Mail/somemail | wc
	tail: stdout: Undefined error: 0
	   13598   13602 1045746

	On a non easily line-split file (e.g. gzip'd data), it'll die
	at 1048576.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Obvious
>Fix:
	?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: