Re: gawk: sigpipe1.awk:7: fatal: print to "yes | true" failed: Broken pipe

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 12 2023, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> It's inherently racy; the SIGPIPE handling is done around calls
> to stdio's popen(), which does fork+exec.  I just took a look at
> the code and I don't see that there is anything else I can do.

You could just use an empty signal handler, which is not inherited
across exec.

> If you can give me access to a machine:
>
> - where the test fails consistently

By the pure nature of a race, this is impossible.

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