Bug#627025: perl: data loss in output when both stdout and stderr are redirected to a pipe

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:34:27PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> This may be a regression, as I cannot reproduce this problem on a
> Debian/lenny machine, still with a local repository, but a different
> one.
> 
> However the environment is rather different, and since the bug may be
> due to a race condition, one cannot draw a definitive conclusion.

Thanks for letting us know. My next question (not yet having had
time to do any detailed analysis of the issue) would be whether it
can be reproduced on squeeze (or even better, pre-5.12 sid/wheezy,
but that's probably rather awkward to set up now).

Cheers,
Dominic.

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