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bug#5238: 23.1.50; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#5238: 23.1.50; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:02:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Your shell ignores SIGPIPE for interactive sessions.  Gzip checks if
> SIGPIPE is ignored, and if it is not, installs a signal handler that prints
> "gzip: stdout: Broken pipe".  Try
> M-! bash -i -c 'locale -m' RET
>
> That gives some job and terminal control errors from the shell, but no gzip
> messages.  I don't know if ignoring SIGPIPE for subprocesses is the right
> thing for Emacs to do.

Since `M-x shell RET locale -m RET' doesn't display broken pipe errors,
then perhaps `shell-command' should do the same and ignore SIGPIPE,
because the output of `shell-command' and `shell' is expected to be the same.





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