Reading compressed character maps and gzip EPIPE issues.

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Sat Nov 23 19:02:00 GMT 2019


On 11/23/19 10:38 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Current localedef uses posix_spawnp, which uses vfork, which blocks
> all signals while it starts the child. Should we be setting the
> signal mask appropriately for posix_spawnp so SIGPIPE can reach
> gzip? Is that what we're getting at?

Yes, that sounds like it. The localedef fix should be independent of how 
posix_spawnp is implemented, though.



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