On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, John Jetmore wrote:
> While poking around, I see that the groundwork for a SIGPIPE handler has
> been layed:
>
> sub pipehandler { $sigpipehappened = 1; }
> [cut]
> # For timeout tests, wait before closing the pipe; we expect a
> # SIGPIPE error in this case.
> [cut]
> $sigpipehappened = 0;
> close CMD; # Waits for command to finish
>
> But pipehandler() never actually gets assigned to $SIG{PIPE} that I can
> see. Maybe this got lost in transition?
It got lost a long time ago, apparently! I can't find this in the
original script either. Could you please try inserting
$SIG{'PIPE'} = \&pipehandler;
around line 2000 in the script, and see if it helps?
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