Subject: Re: bug#7489: [coreutils] over aggressive threads in sort

From: Chen Guo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:22:58 -0800

Hi Professor Eggert,
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
>  (for i in $(seq 12); do read line; echo $i; sleep .1; done
>  cat > /dev/null) < fifo &
>  (ulimit -t 1; ./sort in > fifo \
>  || echo killed via $(env kill -l $(expr $? - 128)))

I ran this 10 times or so on an i7 and couldn't trigger anything. Is
seq 12 supposed to vary depending on the number of cores?