On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 00:06, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 15.04.25 23:35, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > >> I started "ip mon" in the background, and closed the shell and the > >> terminal. > > >> The "ip" command is still running, receiving netlink messages and writing > >> to stdout, receiving EIO for this attempt. > > >> Monitor mode should probably exit when it cannot write output. > > > Isn't this normal behaviour? IE, if I do 'sleep infinity &' and close > > the terminal, it will likewise hang around > > Yes, but "sleep" will eventually exit, and doesn't produce output, so it > doesn't have an opportunity to notice that stdout has been revoked. > > And since the only function in monitor mode is to produce this output, > it can just exit here.
I see - then this is more like a feature request than a packaging/downstream regression/issue. Stephen, David, what do you think about the above request?
