Solved Pipe timeout issue? Terminated with signal 13.

dehrmann · Dec 16, 2023

This is on FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. I discovered this with a different command, but I was able to reduce it down to a pretty generic example. When I run this command, it regularly (but not always) fails:

Code:

dehrmann@freebsd:/var $ ls | sort | xargs | ls

<~20 items listed>

xargs: /bin/echo: terminated with signal 13; aborting

This is a recent installation, and it's using a zfs root.

junkyalleycat · Dec 16, 2023

your last ls command exited before xargs without waiting for input from the pipes, because it doesn't care about stdin, breaking the plumbing (13 = SIGPIPE) and dumping raw sewage all over your system internals

dehrmann · Dec 16, 2023

junkyalleycat said:
your last ls command exited before xargs without waiting for input from the pipes, because it doesn't care about stdin, breaking the plumbing (13 = SIGPIPE) and dumping raw sewage all over your system internals

Oops. I didn't mean to pipe it to ls. Never mind.