Re: unconditional SIGPIPE usage in gzip 1.6

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/11/2013 12:09 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> might have been on a
> Hurd or BSD system, I don't recall offhand.

Those both have SIGPIPE, so it must have been something else.
I'm a bit curious about what it'd be, though, since as far
as I know only MSVC and mingw lack SIGPIPE.  Anyway, I
pushed this patch -- it avoids polluting the mainline
code with #ifdefs.  Thanks.


>From fdbf887ff474c5eaab314eba7de37cf177219587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:53:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maint: port to platforms lacking SIGPIPE

* tailor.h (SIGPIPE): Define to 0 if not defined.  This fixes a
porting bug introduced as part of 2012-11-16 syntax-check cleanup.
Problem reported by Bdale Garbee in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2013-06/msg00006.html>.
---
 tailor.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tailor.h b/tailor.h
index 0bf88ff..e563b66 100644
--- a/tailor.h
+++ b/tailor.h
@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@
 #  define OS_CODE  0x0a
 #endif
 
+#ifndef SIGPIPE
+# define SIGPIPE 0
+#endif
+
 
         /* Common defaults */
 
-- 
1.7.11.7