GNU bug report logs - #29154
25.3; Eshell: Pipes seem to hang or corrupt data when text chunk is large (>10k lines)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Merged with 15414, 18569, 25549

Found in versions 24.3, 25.1, 25.3

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 29154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29154: 25.3;
 Eshell: Pipes seem to hang or corrupt data when text chunk is large
 (>10k lines)
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 06:45:53 -0500

close 29154
merge 29154 25549
quit

Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com> writes:

> - emacs -Q
> - M-x eshell
>
> 	~ $ time cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
> 	234937
> 	12.005 secs
> 	~ $ time cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
> 	234937
> 	12.010 secs
> 	~ $ time cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
> 	234937
> 	11.321 secs
> 	~ $ time cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
> 	234937
> 	11.861 secs
> 	~ $ time cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
> 	188508
> 	3.734 secs
> 	~ $ 
>
> Notice in the last case that the output is wrong.
>
> Sometimes the above command seeminly never terminates, or maybe it's
> just taking too long for my patience.
>
> Because of its randomness, it's hard to reproduce.

This is Bug#25549, it should already be fixed in the 26.0.90 pretest
release.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 204 days ago.

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