On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:12:54 -0700, jani wrote: > 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.
The problem with the unix default SIGPIPE handling is that while it's very useful for command-line applications, it's most annoying for pretty much anything else (in particular networking applications). Regardless of the default, this needs an easy to use switch to toggle the behavior. Leon
