[Bug 2133156] Re: echo 1 | sort | head -n0: sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe

Simon Johnsson 2133156 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Jan 15 14:52:53 UTC 2026


I have created an upstream issue for this regression here:
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10260

** Bug watch added: github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues #10260
   https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10260

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Title:
  echo 1 | sort | head -n0: sort: write failed: 'standard output':
  Broken pipe

Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in rust-coreutils source package in Questing:
  New

Bug description:
  dpigs produces its output, then shows an error:

      sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe

  dpigs end with a 'sort | head' pipeline. This error is due to sort's
  new behaviour in rust-coreutils when being passed into a pipe that's
  closed mid-write, which is exactly what head does.

  Minimally, this is reproducible with:

      $ echo 1 | sort | head -n0
      sort: write failed: 'standard output': Broken pipe

  This is either a latent bug in dpigs or a regression in rust-
  coreutils.

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