On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > But signal dispositions are inherited by child processes. So you run > ping from your short Python program, and it inherits SIGPIPE being > ignored. And it's written in C, not Python, so when it writes to the > pipe, there's no exception. So ping never gets any indication that it > should exit.
But doesn't write() fail with EPIPE in that situation? That would mean `ping` ignores any error return from write(). Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
