When using monotone as revision control system, a "mtn: operation canceled: Broken pipe" message is printed. Reason is that, in a call to mtn, the pipe is closed before mtn has done all its output. This patch fixes the problem.

diff -up ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/monotone.pm.orig ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/monotone.pm
--- ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/monotone.pm.orig 2008-11-12 23:45:24.000000000 +0100
+++ ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/monotone.pm  2008-12-16 12:41:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -525,13 +525,12 @@ sub rcs_recentchanges ($) {
    my $child = open(MTNLOG, "-|");
    if (! $child) {
        exec("mtn", "log", "--root=$config{mtnrootdir}", "--no-graph",
-            "--brief") || error("mtn log failed to run");
+            "--brief", "--last=$num") || error("mtn log failed to run");
    }

-   while (($num >= 0) and (my $line = <MTNLOG>)) {
+   while (my $line = <MTNLOG>) {
        if ($line =~ m/^($sha1_pattern)/) {
            push @revs, $1;
-           $num -= 1;
        }
    }
    close MTNLOG || debug("mtn log exited $?");

Thanks for the patch, and for testing the monotone backend. applied done --Joey