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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:07:29 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Musl bug, or, am I losing my mind?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 04:10:02AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> [2015-12-30 22:28:33 +0100]:
> > * Guided Muscle <atguarded-gizmo@...oo.com> [2015-12-30 20:04:41 +0000]:
> > > cat o.txt | cdb -c c.cdb  
> > > FAILED: cdb: (stdin): bad format
> > > 
> > > However 
> > > PASS: cdb -c c.cdb < o.txt
> > 
> > my guess is that cdb does not handle short reads properly
> > 
> > but you can see what's going on with strace
> 
> another guess: if this is a musl based system
> then there was a gcc bug that broke fflush at
> exit so cat would truncate the output.
> 
> again strace can tell if that is the case.

"On Debian 8" is probably not a musl-based cat.

Rich

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