tail does not exit

[Max N. Boyarov]

>>>>> "MT" == Mikhail Teterin writes:

 MT>  On четвер 20 грудень 2007, Max N. Boyarov wrote:
 MT> = after something writeln to /var/log/messages tail get SIGPIPE

 MT> But why is that needed for tail to notice? It is trying to output 10 lines.

 MT> After it outputs the very first one of them, awk exits, and the 9 subsequent 
 MT> lines go into thin air /without tail noticing/.
 
 MT> Is not that a bug in itself?

 Tail write buffer at all, i.e. all 10 lines writes to pipe.

$ cat test   
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6
line7
line8
line9
line10
line11

 tail -f test | awk '{print "Exiting" $1;  exit 0}'

 open("test", O_RDONLY)                  = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=68, ...}) = 0
syscall_477(0, 0x44, 0x1, 0x1, 0x3, 0, 0) = 0x28175000
write(1, "line2\nline3\nline4\nline5\nline6\nli"..., 62Exitingline2
) = 62
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_ISUID|S_ISVTX|070, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
syscall_478(0x3, 0, 0, 0x1)             = 0
syscall_478(0x3, 0, 0, 0)               = 0
read(3, "line1\nline2\nline3\nline4\nline5\nli"..., 4096) = 68
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ write buff ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

munmap(0x28175000, 68)                  = 0
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
kqueue(0x28172d40)                      = 4
syscall_397(0x3, 0xbfbfe44c)            = 0
kevent(0x4, 0x28205040, 0x1, 0, 0, 0xbfbfe624) = 0
kevent(0x4, 0, 0, 0x28205040, 0x1, 0)   = 1
read(3, "line++\n", 4096)               = 7
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ new line added ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

fstat(1, {st_mode=031545, st_size=7596457873570623081, ...}) = 0
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
write(1, "line++\n", 7)                 = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
^^^^^^^^^ try write ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe: 13) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe: 13) ---
^^^^^^^^ exit ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-- 
Max N. Boyarov
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