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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2006-09-17 08:20:39 +0000
committerColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2006-09-17 08:20:39 +0000
commitde4e3f7503f9e93d1e43165fd41c0307a32bb4d4 (patch)
tree6d9576413c948f7ef6825dfdd5652c51223c9c49 /lib/pipeline.c
parentf9e1014c09fd219e2bf7dcc09278104e8a05116e (diff)
* lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Ignore SIGPIPE in child processes
(Debian bug #387864). * docs/NEWS: Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/pipeline.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/pipeline.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pipeline.c b/lib/pipeline.c
index f734d77a..3411afbb 100644
--- a/lib/pipeline.c
+++ b/lib/pipeline.c
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ void pipeline_start (pipeline *p)
if (pid < 0)
error (FATAL, errno, _("fork failed"));
if (pid == 0) {
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
/* child */
pop_all_cleanups ();
@@ -685,6 +687,13 @@ void pipeline_start (pipeline *p)
while (sigaction (SIGQUIT, &osa_sigquit, NULL) &&
errno == EINTR)
;
+ /* ... but we don't want to know about SIGPIPE. */
+ sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
+ sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
+ sa.sa_flags = 0;
+ while (sigaction (SIGPIPE, &sa, NULL) &&
+ errno == EINTR)
+ ;
execvp (p->commands[i]->name, p->commands[i]->argv);
error (EXEC_FAILED_EXIT_STATUS, errno,