Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > That may well be, but if SIGPIPE is ignored upon script startup, then > the shell should not output those error messages upon receiving the > signal in the first place, no?
When SIGPIPE is ignored then the syscall returns with EPIPE instead. This is what bash is reporting. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."