Re: Interesting race condition...

[David Weinehall <tao@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:40:59PM +0000, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob <at> landley.net> writes: 
>  
> > Oh I can't reproduce it either.  (Maybe if I set some kind of loop and left 
> > it running for a few days...) 
>  
> I could reproduce it on an otherwise idle system (2 GHz Athlon, kernel 2.6.7). 
> On a loaded system the bug did not occur, which certainly indicates a race 
> condition. 
>  
> Using the following Bash script, the bug appeared 23 times in 122,221 
> iterations: 
> while [ 1 ];do 
>         ps ax | grep hack >> TEST 
> done 
>  
> The bug *seems* to be in bash, since an equivalent script in tcsh had no 
> problems: 
> while ( 1 ) 
>         ps ax | grep hack >> TEST2 
> end 
>  
> This issue has the potential to break a lot of shell scripts in an almost 
> undebugable way. Should someone file a bug report via 'bashbug'? 

I get this using posh as well, so it doesn't seem to be bash-specific.


Regards: David Weinehall
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