> If there is no trap set it doesn't report an error. So is this
> special behaviour only triggered when there is a trap for SIGPIPE in
> place?
It's not `special', except maybe in the sense that catching a signal
rather than letting it terminate the process causes writes to return
errors.
Chet
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