/usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

[Mikolaj Golub]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:03:37 +0200 Jilles Tjoelker wrote:

 JT> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:25:35PM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
 >> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:27:07AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
 >> > I won't be in a position to create a simpler test case, raise a PR or
 >> > try patches till Tuesday evening (UK) at the earliest.

 >> So far I have been unable to reproduce the problem with portupgrade (and
 >> will probably move to portmaster).

 >> I have however found a different but possibly related problem with the
 >> new version of script in RELENG_8, for which I have raised this PR:

 >> misc/161526: script outputs corrupt if input is not from a terminal

 >> Blast, should of course been bin/

 JT> The extra ^D\b\b are the EOF character being echoed. These EOF
 JT> characters are being generated by the new script(1) to pass through the
 JT> EOF condition on stdin.

 JT> One fix would be to change the termios settings temporarily to disable
 JT> the echoing but this may cause problems if the application is changing
 JT> termios settings concurrently and generally feels bad.

 JT> It may be best to remove writing EOF characters, perhaps adding an
 JT> option to enable it again if there is a concrete use case for it.

Without passing EOF to the to the program being scripted the following command
will hang forever:

echo 1 |script /tmp/script.out cat

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Mikolaj Golub