Most of the SIGPIPE-related patch I've been carrying around in the Debian gzip package is no longer necessary with 1.6, for which I thank you. However, there is still one unconditional use of SIGPIPE that caused someone in Debian a problem at some point... might have been on a Hurd or BSD system, I don't recall offhand. In any case, I'm still carrying this patch around in my 1.6-1 Debian package build. Be nice to have this merged upstream.
Bdale
--- gzip-1.6.orig/gzip.c
+++ gzip-1.6/gzip.c
@@ -562,7 +562,11 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
ALLOC(ush, tab_prefix1, 1L<<(BITS-1));
#endif
+#ifdef SIGPIPE
exiting_signal = quiet ? SIGPIPE : 0;
+#else
+ exiting_signal = 0;
+#endif
install_signal_handlers ();
/* And get to work */
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