Subject: Re: bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:53:48 -0800

On 16/02/19 23:24, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> (I recall I heard about 50 years ago when pipe buffers first came to
> Unix they were supposed to be invisible to the user...)

Right. A lot of folks don't understand/handle them fully though:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/sigpipe_handling.html