user man...@packages.debian.org
usertags 597756 target-2.6.0
tags 597756 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:58:15AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> It's more interesting than that. Normally, iconv should get SIGPIPE
> when it tries to write to stdout and finds that it's been closed. In
> normal circumstances that should kill iconv before it prints that
> message.
>
> My leading theory is that Stephen is hitting the format_display_and_save
> path, which ignores SIGPIPE in the wrong place such that it could be
> ignored while forking iconv.
Based on this theory, I think I've fixed this bug for man-db 2.6.0.
Fri Jan 7 23:49:55 GMT 2011 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
* src/man.c (format_display_and_save): Drop SIGPIPE handling.
pipeline_pump handles this itself, and doing it here means that
SIGPIPE is incorrectly ignored in subprocesses (Debian bug
#597756).
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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