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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
Cc: 15414@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15414: 24.3; piping problems in eshell
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:59:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <oyd2o5jz3x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86hadha8gs.fsf@gly.ath.cx>

Joseph Mingrone wrote:

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x eshell
> 3. cat a_file | wc -l
>
> The output of 3. will be wrong for most files longer than something like
> 40 lines and it will often give different results each time 3. is run.

FWIW, I did not see this in 100 repetitions on a 100 line file, on
either of two systems. I got the correct answer every time.

I did notice that

  cat does-not-exist | wc -l 

returns 1 though.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-19  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19  1:47 bug#15414: 24.3; piping problems in eshell Joseph Mingrone
2013-09-19  2:59 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-09-19 15:04   ` Joseph Mingrone
2013-09-19 17:07     ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-21 23:41       ` Joseph Mingrone

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