Reading compressed character maps and gzip EPIPE issues.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Nov 22 04:48:00 GMT 2019


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.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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