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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 13 2023, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't understand what you mean. Can you show me some code?

void ignore_sigpipe (int sig) { }

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