GNU bug report logs - #34488
Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 34488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages
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

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