[pdftex] truncated stdout output

[David Carlisle]

On 12/07/2024 11:15, blumens at fi.muni.cz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> not sure this is the right place to report bugs in pdftex.
>
> For some time (perhaps a year or two) I noticed that sometimes pdflatex
> truncates its output to stdout. (The log file is complete though.) The
> bug does not always happen, but frequently.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing this?
>
> As it just happened again, I counted how many bytes were written to
> stdout: it were 35010. (It happened on page 600 of my document.) At that
> time there were 144696 bytes written to the log file. The complete log
> file has 173228 bytes. The next byte to be written to stdout would have
> been 0x9d.
>
> I'm using the official texlive package for ArchLinux.
>
> Any other kind of information you need?
>
> Achim

is this truncation after an error?

The most common cause of that (and it's very common)  is people (or
their editors) killing the process after an error rather than (say)
quitting with `x` and letting tex finish up cleanly.



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