Re: gawk: sigpipe1.awk:7: fatal: print to "yes | true" failed: Broken pipe

[Manuel Collado]

El 2/1/24 a las 15:32, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> This seems odd to me. The code for the first one looks like this:
>
>     res = gettimeofday()
>     st = systime()
>     printf "gettimeofday - systime = %d\n", res-st
>
> The effect of "%d" should be to round down positive values and round up
> negative ones. I'm jet-lagged so probably not thinking clearly, but I'm not
> seeing how this can give a result of 1.  The awk gettimeofday() call should
> simply map to the gettimeofday() system call, and systime() maps to time().
> Do you understand how we're getting a result of 1? What type of system
> is this? I'd find -1 more plausible on some insanely sluggish VM.

The cause may be a clock tick occurring between the first two statements.

Just my 2c.