GNU bug report logs - #20214
Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher <at> wisc.edu>

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher <at> wisc.edu>
To: 20214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20214: Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation
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.
>

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.
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