Re: Sporadic superfluous successful exits

[Aki Helin]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 02/09/2012 01:35 AM, Aki Helin wrote:
> > A date just got printed without issues even though
> > it was matching with Grep that had been patched to crash if it tries to
> > exit with 0 from the bottom of main().
>
> Sounds like the bug's outside of 'grep', then.

Now it's certain. Another tool doing mainly a bit of IO eventually
triggered this on a Phenom II X6. Seems like a race or something similar
in Bash.

Sorry about the misdiagnosis.


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Aki Helin