On Jul 09 2023, Paul Eggert wrote: > Do you see the same problem if you use 'cat' rather than 'od'? If so, the > problem isn't with 'od'; it's with the environment, which is somehow set > up to ignore SIGPIPE. It shouldn't do that, as ignoring SIGPIPE breaks a > lot of programs, and 'od' would be just one of them.
All other utilities (including cat) handle ignored SIGPIPE correctly. $ (trap '' PIPE; cat /dev/zero | :) cat: write error: Broken pipe -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
