From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:49:09 GMT
Subject: Re: SIGPIPE in t9300-fast-import
Message-ID: <20101212214909.GA19709@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <0BB1933F-1C3D-4C24-9C91-263121BF55FB@gernhardtsoftware.com>

Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> 	read blob_id type size <&3 &&
> 	echo "$blob_id $type $size" >response &&
> 	dd of=blob bs=$size count=1 <&3 &&
[...]
> 0+1 records in
> 0+1 records out
> 8139 bytes transferred in 0.000062 secs (131297847 bytes/sec)
> error: git-fast-import died of signal 13
[...]
> I can run help provide diagnostics, if anyone needs more data.

Hmm.  Any idea why dd is ending early?  Does using

	head -c "$size" >blob <&3 &&

or

	dd of=blob bs=1 count=$size <&3 &&

in its place work?  What does the Mac OS X equivalent of

	strace dd of=blob bs=$size count=1 <&3

(dtrace or ktrace, I guess) tell?

Thanks for noticing.