Don't allow stdout and stderr from extfs scripts pollute the screen.

Andrew V. Samoilov sav at bcs.zp.ua
Thu Dec 5 15:37:47 UTC 2002


Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
>>>patch below prevents stderr from extfs scripts pollute the screen.
>>
>>Applied as is.  Thank you very much!
> 
> 
> Bad news.  After your patch extfs gets stuck on output that exceeds 4
> kilobytes.  The example is attached.  Try "cd lslR#lslR"
> 
> It looks like mc doesn't accept more data, so whatever program is trying
> to write to stdout (awk in this case) gets stuck, and you have to kill it.
> 
> The problem can be observed on RedHat 8.0.
> 

New version for extfs list command.  I have no time to generate 
inconsistent extfs archive to check consistency for such archives.


-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov
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