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# Date: Mon, 17 Mar 97 20:48 CST
# From: dhw@gamgee.acad.emich.edu (David H. West)
# To: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu
# Subject: gawk 3.0.2 bug report (cc of msg to bug-gnu-utils)
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# Nature of bug: operation on a pipe side-effects a different pipe.
# Observed-With: gawk 3.0.2, Linux kernel 2.0.28
# Reproduce-By: running the following script, without and with the "close"
#               statement uncommented.
# -----------------cut here--------------------------
BEGIN {FILE1="test1"; FILE2="test2"; 
       print "1\n" > FILE1; close(FILE1);
       print "2\n" > FILE2; close(FILE2); 
       cmd1="cat " FILE1; cmd2="cat " FILE2;
       #end of preparing commands which give easily-predictable output

       while( (cmd1 | getline)==1) { #terminates as file has only 1 line
                                     #and we never close cmd1
          cmd2 | getline L; 
          #BUG: uncommenting the following line causes an infinite loop
          close(cmd2);
          print $0,L;
          }
      }