> On 16 Jun 2017, at 08:34, Sean McAfee <eef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I see at > > http://www.moarvm.com/releases.html > > ...that as of the 2017.03 release, Perl 6 "ignores SIGPIPE by default." I > discovered this for myself when I piped a program that generates unlimited > output to the head utility, and the program did not exit when head was > finished. Simple example: > > $ perl6 -e '.say for ^Inf' | head > > This will print numbers up to 9, and then continue to use almost 100% of the > CPU printing to a closed pipe. > > I haven't been able to turn up any discussion about this change. Does anyone > have any insight? It's surprising and, frankly, unwelcome.
Trying this on HEAD I get: $ 6 '.say for ^Inf' | head 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Failed to write bytes to filehandle: Broken pipe in block <unit> at -e line 1 So it would appear this got fixed by the synchronous IO refactor, and will be available in the 2017.06 release, which is scheduled for tomorrow. Liz
