[4843] in testers
scp fails if .environment writes to stdout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Jun 19 14:00:30 2001
Message-Id: <200106191756.NAA98820@space-invaders.mit.edu>
To: testers@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:56:17 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
I recently added a line to ~/.environment to detect whether or not it
was running on a Gnome workstation, and to echo the result to the
console. However, I then found that scp no longer worked,
complaining:
Write failed flushing stdout buffer.
write stdout: Broken pipe
I removed all of the "echo" lines from ~/.environment, and sure
enough, this error went away and scp worked again.
I think the ability to have .environment output text without breaking
scp is a desirable feature.
(And yes, this bug is also present in Athena 8.4.)
-B.
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