Re: [E-devel] eterm: SIGPIPE handling

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Jennings
On Friday, 01 June 2007, at 02:37:13 (+1000), Andrew wrote: > I'm sure this is an FAQ but I couldn't find the answer in the > archives or docs. Before spawning the shell (or whatever process it > happens to be) Eterm resets most signal handlers to SIG_DFL but > skips SIGPIPE. This causes problems

[E-devel] eterm: SIGPIPE handling

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew
Hi, I'm sure this is an FAQ but I couldn't find the answer in the archives or docs. Before spawning the shell (or whatever process it happens to be) Eterm resets most signal handlers to SIG_DFL but skips SIGPIPE. This causes problems in shells that don't reset it. Is there a reason SIGPIPE is