# New Ticket Created by Jan Ingvoldstad # Please include the string: [perl #131608] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131608 >
According to a brief mail discussion on perl6-users (https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/2017/06/msg3905.html and subsequent messages), Rakudo seems to improperly handle piping with e.g. head, and therefore most likely any other kind of external program that would close a pipe. For the sake of bug record keeping, here's the relevant snippet of the discussion. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > 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. This appears to be only a partial fix with an unexpected outcome. awk, Perl 5, Ruby, etc. do not generate errors for similar use of pipes, and instead use exit status 0. PS: I have not installed the latest Rakudo myself, this just caught my interest, and I was asked to file a rakudobug about it. -- Jan
