In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"):
>...
>> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
>...
>> gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
>> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
>> dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)
>> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
>> Errors were encountered... (and so on)
>
>This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For
>reasons too complicated to explain here this means that dpkg can't do
>proper error trapping (it always gets an error indication, and can't
>tell whether it's really an error).
Can't you just set signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL) first thing in the
main() function of dpkg? And if not, could you tell me why not
(sounds interesting ;))
Mike.
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