Comment 4 for bug 151440

Hi Michael,

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce the situation, since I am not
yet running Hardy.

BR,
Daniel

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Michael Nagel <email address hidden> wrote:
> copied text from mentioned blog:
>
> July 3, 2008
>
> And now I'm remembering why replacing the command line utilities out of
> Ubuntu is so vital to getting a reliable build:
>
> tee: standard output: Resource temporarily unavailable
> tee: write error
>
> The forkbomb script pipes the output of the build through "tee". If the
> xterm it's writing to ever gets scheduled slowly enough for the output
> pipe to fill up and cause a short write, tee _exits_. The busybox
> version of tee IS NOT THAT STUPID.
>
> Grrrr.
>
> Also, User Mode Linux has developed strange new bugs circa 2.6.25, and
> if you run it from a shell script and it gets a kernel panic, it sends a
> kill signal to every process in it session, which takes down the shell
> script running it. Meaning without toybox's oneit (to shut it down
> cleanly), I have to run UML under setsid (and then reset the tty
> afterwards) or else the shell script aborts when UML exits. (Even if I
> run it in a subshell.)
>
> Implemented tee in toybox and added that to the start of my $PATH while
> doing the RECORD_COMMANDS forkbomb. (Yeah, I could have just used the
> busybox version, but it was an excuse to add a small simple command to
> toybox. I still need to add a test suite for tee.)
>
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => linux
>
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> standard output: Resource temporarily unavailable
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