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Bug 122558

Summary:	tcsh redirection misbehaving with echo builtin
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Tony Ernst <tee>
Component:	tcsh	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Description Tony Ernst 2004-05-05 19:18:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
Using scripts similar to "configure" scripts which generate other
smaller sub-scripts and then execute them, we are seeing that the
sub-scripts fail to execute with the error "Text file busy".
It appears that a file descriptor is being left open after the
redirection.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcsh-6.12-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
% cat ./mytest
#!/bin/tcsh -f

rm -f ./mysubscript
echo "#\!/bin/tcsh" > ./mysubscript
echo "ls -l" >> ./mysubscript
chmod a+x ./mysubscript

./mysubscript 
exit 0

% chmod u+x ./mytest
% ./mytest
./mysubscript: Text file busy.
% 


Actual Results:  % ./mytest
./mysubscript: Text file busy.
% 

Expected Results:  % ./mytest
total 128
-rwxr-xr-x    1 tee      os1            18 May  5 13:57 mysubscript
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           150 May  5 13:54 mytest
% 

Additional info:


If you replace the first 'echo' with '/bin/echo', it works.

% diff mytest mytest.good
4c4
< echo "#\!/bin/tcsh" > ./mysubscript
---
> /bin/echo "#\!/bin/tcsh" > ./mysubscript
% 
% ./mytest.good
total 72
-rwxr-xr-x    1 tee      os1            18 May  5 14:04 mysubscript
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           150 May  5 13:54 mytest
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           155 May  5 13:59 mytest.good
% 

Also, if you only use redirection to append ('>>' instead of '>'), it
works.

% diff mytest mytest.append
4c4,5
< echo "#\!/bin/tcsh" > ./mysubscript
---
> touch ./mysubscript
> echo "#\!/bin/tcsh" >> ./mysubscript
% 
% ./mytest.append
total 136
-rwxr-xr-x    1 tee      os1            18 May  5 14:14 mysubscript
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           150 May  5 13:54 mytest
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           171 May  5 14:11 mytest.append
-rwxr--r--    1 tee      os1           155 May  5 13:59 mytest.good
%

Comment 1 Tony Ernst 2004-05-05 19:49:50 UTC

I looked at traces of both the failing case (mytest) and the appending
case (mytest.append).

The difference seems to be that in the failing case there's an
additional 'fcntl(3, F_DUPFD, 0)' being called after the
'open("./mysubscript", ...)'.  This seems likely to be the cause of
the problem.

mytest trace:
=============
open("./mysubscript", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
fcntl(3, F_DUPFD, 0)                    = 4
dup2(3, 1)                              = 1
close(3)                                = 0
ioctl(1, TCGETS or SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, 0x60000ffffffef880) = -1
ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
close(2)                                = 0
dup(18)                                 = 2
fcntl(2, F_SETFD, 0)                    = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], [INT], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], [INT], 8) = 0
write(1, "#!/bin/tcsh\n", 12)           = 12
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
close(0)                                = 0
close(1)                                = 0
close(2)                                = 0

mytrace.append trace:
=====================
open("./mysubscript", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND) = 3
dup2(3, 1)                              = 1
close(3)                                = 0
ioctl(1, TCGETS or SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, 0x60000ffffffef870) = -1
ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
close(2)                                = 0
dup(18)                                 = 2
fcntl(2, F_SETFD, 0)                    = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], [INT], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], [INT], 8) = 0
write(1, "#!/bin/tcsh\n", 12)           = 12
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
close(0)                                = 0
close(1)                                = 0
close(2)                                = 0

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2004-10-19 21:29:30 UTC

*** Bug 136418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 John Flanagan 2004-12-21 15:02:40 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-524.html