Re: bug#17981: [PATCH] maint.mk: less syntax-check noise when SIGPIPE is ignored

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <53C0533F.1030009__2402.10954002595$1405113215$gmane$org@cs.ucla.edu> 
On 07/11/2014 02:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> are you arguing that any shell that provides 'set -o pipefail' should
> ALSO provide a knob to explicitly treat death due to SIGPIPE as not
> impacting pipefail?  At which point, then you DO want to re-enable
> rather than ignore SIGPIPE, and don't have to worry about what child
> processes do on EPIPE, but only what they do on SIGPIPE, where death by
> SIGPIPE is not fatal to the pipeline.

Yes, that's the basic idea.  Sorry I did not explain it clearly enough.  
Please feel free to forward this on to the Austin group.
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