On 05/03/11 13:00, Sam Steingold wrote: >> > So, we have (sed X | sed Y | sed Z), and sed X is sleeping waiting >> > for its write to finish, while sed Y is sleeping waiting for its >> > read to finish. I'm not sure, but this would appear to be >> > a kernel bug in Solaris 11. > that sucks. > so, am I stuck?
If my diagnosis is right, then yes, it's be a fairly serious kernel bug that really should get fixed, or lots of shell pipelines will stop working. I could be wrong, though.