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and subject line watch and closing pipes
has caused the Debian Bug report #819163,
regarding procps: [watch] option to discard remaining output rather than
closing pipe
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Package: procps
Version: 2:3.3.9-9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Hi,
I often use "watch 'make 2>&1'" to look at compiler errors during
development, but as the watch command completely closes the pipe, the
compilation process is killed by SIGPIPE as soon as the page is full, which
takes the build system by surprise, often leaving an inconsistent state.
It'd be great if there was a command line option to silently throw away
remaining output rather than close the pipe.
Simon
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u3
ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii libprocps3 2:3.3.9-9
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.21-2
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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That's just how watch works.
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