On 6/11/10 5:10 PM, Kevin wrote:
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the following will make bash
> crash.
>
>
> terminal 2:
> $ mkfifo test
> $ while true; do echo foo && sleep 1; done > test
>
> terminal 1:
> $ <test cat
>
> wait for a few "foo"s to be printed and then kill with ctrl-c
> terminal 2 will read:
>
> Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed.
Bash gets a SIGPIPE and exits, since that's a fatal signal. The question
is whether it should try and figure out whether the file it's writing to
is a pipe and catch and discard SIGPIPE if so.
Chet
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