Mitigate Interrupted system call on trace_file writes #5397
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Writes to files from bash built-ins like
echo
can be fallible, particularly in older versions of bash, such as versions 4.2.x and 4.4.x. This often lead to errors when running numerous processes with tracing enabled on network-based file systems, such as:.command.run: line 172: echo: write error: Interrupted system call
Here is a potential mitigation. To address this,
echo
commands were consolidated into a single block to write to$trace_file
with an error message on failure. This is assuming that the lack of a .command.trace file will not cause any downstream failures.Reference
For more details on similar issues, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/487260
Signed-off-by: Nico Holguin [email protected]