Subject: bug#20214: Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation

From: Isaac Schwabacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:31:28 -0500

Isaac Schwabacher wrote:
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> perhaps it would be sufficient to redirect stdin from a closed fifo instead, so that applications that do not explicitly promise to handle EPIPE would be killed by SIGPIPE.
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Herp derp, I completely forgot that read(2) and write(2) aren't symmetric. Of course you can't get SIGPIPE from a read.

...instead you get EOF.