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[PATCH] maint.mk: less syntax-check noise when SIGPIPE is ignored

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org
Cc: agx <at> sigxcpu.org, 17981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-sed <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#17981: [PATCH] maint.mk: less syntax-check noise when SIGPIPE is ignored
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:12:31 -0700

On 07/11/2014 02:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> are you arguing that any shell that provides 'set -o pipefail' should
> ALSO provide a knob to explicitly treat death due to SIGPIPE as not
> impacting pipefail?  At which point, then you DO want to re-enable
> rather than ignore SIGPIPE, and don't have to worry about what child
> processes do on EPIPE, but only what they do on SIGPIPE, where death by
> SIGPIPE is not fatal to the pipeline.

Yes, that's the basic idea.  Sorry I did not explain it clearly enough.  
Please feel free to forward this on to the Austin group.

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