Re: How to get bash to shut up about SIGPIPE?

Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:21:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Defining "DONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE" in config-top.h when building bash gets rid 
of it, but I really don't want to rebuild bash just because of this ;)

Debian's bash seems to have that set, so it's a bit hard for me to test

This issue has been around for years.  The discussion that led to
Debian setting this option may be helpful in understanding it:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=10494

A brief time line:

11 Jun 1997 The issue was reported to Debian.
20 Nov 1999 Chet Ramey remarks that bash's default will not change.
 4 Sep 2004 Debian sets DONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE.

Chet Ramey claims that setting DONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE by default
would make bash incompatible with every other shell out there.
Interestingly, all the non-bash shells that I've tried disagree
with him.

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