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Re: Broken pipe error


To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:36:40 +0200

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Petr Janda wrote:
:> Ok, it seems that I found a bug.
:> :> elevator# man ppp
:> zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe
:> zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/ppp.8.gz: uncompress failed
:
:Do you get that for all man pages or just ppp(8)?
:
:Sascha
:
:-- :http://yoyodyne.ath.cx


    The error is quite simply due to the fact that the pager program
    (more) exited without reading all the input from the pipe.  It
    only occurs sometimes because it depends on whether the pipe
    direct-maps zcat's (gunzip's) write to the pager program's read.

How come only Petr is having this problem?


Sascha

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