Subject: bug#16597: 23.2; Emacs's SIGPIPE ignore passed to child processes

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:19:50 -0500

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Juergen Nickelsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> I think it would be better to reset the SIGPIPE handling in the
>> subprocess before calling the shell (or whatever).
>
> Works for me.  From src/process.c (create_process):
>
>       /* Emacs ignores SIGPIPE, but the child should not.  */
>       signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);

Yes, but AFAICS that's not in 23.2, which is rather old.
Looks like it first appeared in 24.1?

Anyway, time to upgrade. Latest is 24.3.