Subject: Re: bug#5238: 23.1.50; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:30:24 +0100

Andreas Schwab skrev 2011-02-12 18.18:
> Jan Djärv<[email-masked]>  writes:
>
>> Gzip checks if SIGPIPE is ignored, and if it is not, installs a signal
>> handler that prints "gzip: stdout: Broken pipe".
>
> No it doesn't.  The error only happens because gzip gets EPIPE while
> writing to stdout, which can only happen when SIGPIPE is ignored, which
> in fact Emacs does.  It's the fault of libgtk.

Your analysis is correct, but the error happens for a Lucid build and for a 
non-x-toolkit build also.  It is actually GConf that ignores SIGPIPE.

Anyway, the bug is fixed in trunk, closing.

	Jan D.