On 1/12/15 9:55 AM, wer...@linux-8jdz.site wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/bash-4.3 > -L/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/bash-4.3/../readline-6.3 > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-suse-linux-gnu' > -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -fmessage-length=0 > -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector > -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -D_GNU_SOURCE > -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -g -Wuninitialized -Wextra -Wno-unprototyped-calls > -Wno-switch-enum -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses > -ftree-loop-linear -pipe -DBNC382214=0 -DMUST_UNBLOCK_CHLD=1 > -DIMPORT_FUNCTIONS_DEF=0 -fprofile-use > uname output: Linux d136 3.15.0-rc7-3-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 28 > 15:39:51 UTC 2014 (96f5b60) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 33 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Named fifo's causing hanging bash scripts like > > while IFS="|" read a b c ; do > [shell code] > done < <(shell code) > > can cause random hangs of the bash. An strace shows that the bash > stays in wait4()
And when you attach to one of the hanging bash processes using gdb, what does the stack traceback look like? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/