Re: |& loses data (buffering bug?)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:15:05 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that when I use |&, data from either stdout or stderr
> (of the first command) are lost. For instance, the output of a
> "cvs status |& less" sometimes gives the following:

Have you tried typing `F' in less?  It could be the output is jerky and less hasn't actually read to the end of the file.

It's pretty unlikely zsh has been losing data all this time and no-one's
noticed it --- particularly since all zsh has to do is open and redirect
the file descriptors.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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