tail(1): Do not print bogus errno string

In the case where write(2) does not return -1, it does not initialize errno.
This can happen when a broken pipe causes a short write.

I attempted to adapt the submitted test case to ATF but could not figure out
how to make the test run in the ATF environment.  So the aborted test is
left disabled, in case someone would like to run it manually or fix it.

PR:		221976
Submitted by:	<martin AT lispworks.com> (earlier version)
Sponsored by:	Dell EMC Isilon

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/extern.h b/usr.bin/tail/extern.h
index 94cc057789bf..e42fda7f6962 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tail/extern.h
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/extern.h
@@ -32,9 +32,15 @@
  */
 
 #define	WR(p, size) do { \
-	if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, p, size) != (ssize_t)size) \
-		oerr(); \
-	} while(0)
+	ssize_t res; \
+	res = write(STDOUT_FILENO, p, size); \
+	if (res != (ssize_t)size) { \
+		if (res == -1) \
+			oerr(); \
+		else \
+			errx(1, "stdout"); \
+	} \
+} while (0)
 
 #define TAILMAPLEN (4<<20)
 
diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/tests/tail_test.sh b/usr.bin/tail/tests/tail_test.sh
index 3e407ea3ff00..dcfd0b2ca781 100755
--- a/usr.bin/tail/tests/tail_test.sh
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/tests/tail_test.sh
@@ -215,6 +215,19 @@ longfile_rn2500_body()
 	atf_check cmp expectfile outpipe
 }
 
+atf_test_case broken_pipe
+broken_pipe_head()
+{
+	atf_set "descr" "Do not print bogus errno based output on short writes"
+}
+broken_pipe_body()
+{
+	atf_expect_fail "Can't seem to get testcase to work in test environment.  Reproduces easily in interactive shell."
+
+	seq -f '%128g' 1 1000 > ints
+	atf_check -s exit:1 -o ignore -e "inline:tail: stdout" tail -n 856 ints | awk '{ exit }'
+}
+
 
 atf_init_test_cases()
 {
@@ -230,4 +243,5 @@ atf_init_test_cases()
 	atf_add_test_case longfile_rc135782
 	atf_add_test_case longfile_rc145782_longlines
 	atf_add_test_case longfile_rn2500
+	#atf_add_test_case broken_pipe
 }