Re: "broken pipe" in gawk

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. I don't think this is gawk-related.  All the error
messages are coming from bzcat; the code in the awk script
that prints error messages isn't printing anything.

What happens if your man pages are compressed with gzip instead
of bzip2?

Thanks,

Arnold

> From: Thibault Godouet <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: "broken pipe" in gawk
> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 09:58:29 +0200
>
>    Hello !
>
> When I run "makewhatis -v" ( man-1.5j ) from fcron 2.9.0 ( 
> http://fcron.free.fr ),
> I get some something like this :
>
> --------------------------------
> [...]
> adding ./read-ical.1.bz2
> adding ./gimp.1.bz2
>
> bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> bzcat: Broken pipe
>         Input file = ./gimp.1.bz2, output file = (stdout)
> adding ./times.1.bz2
> adding ./gimp-remote.1.bz2
> adding ./eyuvtoppm.1.bz2
> adding ./csh.1.bz2
>
> bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> bzcat: Broken pipe
>         Input file = ./csh.1.bz2, output file = (stdout)
> adding ./mmencode.1.bz2
> adding ./rsautl.1.bz2
>
> bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> bzcat: Broken pipe
>         Input file = ./rsautl.1.bz2, output file = (stdout)
> adding ./jpilot-upgrade-99.1.bz2
> [...]
> ------------------------------
>
> Some other users have the same problem.
>
> Those errors seem to come from the awk script used by makewhatis,
> probably the line :
>         result = (pipe_cmd | getline);
>
> As you can see from the log, some files work, some don't ...
> in fact, it seems that some *lines* of the man pages produce
> an error, some don't, since "whatis" seems to work even on files
> which have produced an error
> (for instance, "whatis gimp" prints something about gimp.1 ).
>
> When "makewhatis" runs from a console, it works perfectly well, so
> I've searched for a bug in fcron, but haven't found what causes that ...
> I don't know if it is a bug of fcron or gawk, but I would appreciate
> if you could help me to catch it.
>
> Do you have any idea of what it might be ?
>
> If you need more informations, please tell me !
>
> Thanks for your help,
>     Thibault.