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Re: Reading compressed character maps and gzip EPIPE issues.

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 11/20/19 11:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 11/20/19 8:43 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> Paul, Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Yes: don't ignore SIGPIPE in the process that execs gzip. That way,
>> gzip will be killed without having a chance to complain to stderr.
>> This is the same for gzip 1.9 as for 1.10.
>
> I'm not actually sure what we do with SIGPIPE in localedef. I'll have
> dig into that. Thanks for the pointer.

Sorry, Paul is right: This is not a localedef problem at all.  You
need to fix the process that spawns localedef.  It somehow ends up
blocking the signal.
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