Re: [bug #63307] make 4.4 passes ignored SIGPIPE on to children

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 11/9/22 21:36, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #18, bug #63307 (project make):
>
> I can see an argument for both sides ("give up immediately" and "run to
> completion").  Most likely it's one of those things where different people
> legitimately want different behaviors.
>
> But I think that since all previous versions of GNU Make used the "give up
> immediately" model, and it wasn't our intention to specifically change that,
> we should preserve that behavior until/unless someone wants the opposite
> behavior.
>
> If we have "give up immediately" and you want to guard against that, you can
> do so (say, redirecting output to /dev/null or whatever).  If we have "run to
> completion" and that's not what you want, you don't have any way to get "give
> up immediately" (unless we introduce an option which I don't want to do).
>
> Not to mention the advantage that it's a much simpler (trivial) change to go
> back to "give up immediately" :).

Not that I care about the behavior in this corner case, but was reading the list 
and thought of this:

You can actually get a rough guess of the intention of the user:

If -i or -k was used, "run to completion" is probably wanted; otherwise, "give 
up immediately" makes sense as a default.

No need for new flags.  Yes, this is reinterpreting the options for more than 
they were originally purposed, but in my head it makes sense. :)

Cheers,

Alex
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