iotop -bo output can't be piped

[Keith Worrell]

Binary package hint: iotop

Attempting to pipe 'iotop -bo' or 'optop -bo 2>&1' to anything produced no output until after hitting 'ctrl-c' at which point produced the following:
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^Cclose failed in file object destructor:
Error in sys.excepthook:

Original exception was:
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iotop -b had no problems as far as I could tell

The easiest and most revealing way of producing this error was with 'iotop -bo | cat', but same error with sed and tee.

Using iotop version 0.2-3 (jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.04

I had expected it to work like 'top -bi | foo'

[Paul Wise (Debian) (pabs)]

This bug is fixed upstream:

http://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git?a=commit;h=5be2a70fcffefacf1a5695bd0d2d2edc51ffa2f1

It will be fixed once upstream has made a new release and I've packaged it for Debian.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package iotop - 0.3-1

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iotop (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - displays IO scheduling class and priority (Closes: #521360)
    - iotop -bo output can now be piped (LP: #337882)
    - 01_fix_nfs_crash.patch was included, drop it
  * Bump Standards-Version, no changes needed

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Tue, 05 May 2009 09:14:31 +0100