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bug#5238: 23.1.50; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#5238: 23.1.50; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:02:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Your shell ignores SIGPIPE for interactive sessions. Gzip checks if
> SIGPIPE is ignored, and if it is not, installs a signal handler that prints
> "gzip: stdout: Broken pipe". Try
> M-! bash -i -c 'locale -m' RET
>
> That gives some job and terminal control errors from the shell, but no gzip
> messages. I don't know if ignoring SIGPIPE for subprocesses is the right
> thing for Emacs to do.
Since `M-x shell RET locale -m RET' doesn't display broken pipe errors,
then perhaps `shell-command' should do the same and ignore SIGPIPE,
because the output of `shell-command' and `shell' is expected to be the same.