Re: [Chicken-users] large amount of data will break open-pipe

[John Cowan]

Lui Fungsin scripsit:

> For example, a typical C program will ignore SIGPIPE, and check for
> return code for every write/fprintf.

Most C programs don't seem to ignore SIGPIPE; in fact, the reason it exists
is to allow programs to be killed silently when their output is no longer
wanted by the next pipeline step.  Try <random-command> | more, get a page
of output, and hit 'q'; very few programs will report EPIPE ("svn log"
is the only one I know of).

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