> I also wonder whether we should also have a note that disabled SIGPIPE. > similar to what paxctl does. > You mean a system-wide flag? That would worry me; I think it would have bad effects, since anything that did
a | b
would be liable to cause infinite loops if 'a' didn't check the return
code on the write() or printf() or what have you -- and such programs are
very common.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
