Re: [bug-gawk] Behavior of fflush with SIGPIPE on stdout [PATCH]

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:26:49 -0600
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > From: address@hidden
> > > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:50:07 -0600
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > 
> > > I have set things up (I hope) so that gawk behaves like other awks and
> > > dies via SIGPIPE when that should happen. This then automatically
> > > has the exit status set to what it should be in POSIX systems.
> >
> > What does this mean for systems that don't have SIGPIPE?  You will
> > likely see a long series of EINVAL from the write routines there.
> 
> Gawk will exit FATAL. It should all work ok.

I'm not sure it will, but I don't think I see the whole picture yet.

Shouldn't we emulate an abnormal exit, as in "crash"?  EXIT_FAIL is
not it, it just means "some error".

> If you want a tarball let me know

Yes, please.  And also a script that could be used to test this
situation.

Thanks.