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[PATCH v2] diff-highlight: exit when a pipe is broken

From
John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Nov 4, 2014, 20:01 UTC
Message-ID
<1415131272-89441-1-git-send-email-john@szakmeister.net>

While using diff-highlight with other tools, I have discovered that Python ignores SIGPIPE by default. Unfortunately, this also means that tools attempting to launch a pager under Python--and don't realize this is happening--means that the subprocess inherits this setting. In this case, it means diff-highlight will be launched with SIGPIPE being ignored. Let's work with those broken scripts by restoring the default SIGPIPE handler.

Signed-off-by: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
---
Incorporates feedback from Jeff King and now we just restore the default signal
handler using the correct case of 'DEFAULT'.
 contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
index c4404d4..69a652e 100755
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ my @removed;
 my @added;
 my $in_hunk;
 
+# Some scripts may not realize that SIGPIPE is being ignored when launching the
+# pager--for instance scripts written in Python.
+$SIG{PIPE} = 'DEFAULT';
+
 while (<>) {
 	if (!$in_hunk) {
 		print;
-- 
2.0.1
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  1. diff-highlight: exit when a pipe is brokenJohn Szakmeister, Nov 4, 2014
  2. Jeff KingNov 4, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2014

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