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Re: How to get bash to shut up about SIGPIPE?

From
Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Apr 28, 2005, 20:13 UTC
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<427143E5.4080505@lsrfire.ath.cx>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504281217100.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds schrieb:
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> 
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> 
>>I think you misspelled "cg-log". :-D
> 
> 
> My fingers have a hard time learning new patterns, so I've got:
> 
> 	torvalds@ppc970:~/git> cat ~/bin/git   
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	cmd="cg-$1"
> 	shift
> 	$cmd "$@"

As a workaround, add this line after the shift to suppress the ugly messages:

	[ "$cmd" = cg-log ] && exec 2>/dev/null
> Defining "DONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE" in config-top.h when building bash gets rid
> of it, but I really don't want to rebuild bash just because of this ;)

Yes, I just compiled it and in the version from gnu.org this defaults to not being defined. Man, am I glad my distro uncommented that line. :-)

Looking briefly at the source there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off besides this compile time setting. I really wonder why..

Rene
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  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
  2. Rene ScharfeApr 28, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
  4. Rene ScharfeApr 28, 2005
  5. Ryan AndersonApr 28, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
  7. Herbert XuMay 1, 2005
  8. David A. WheelerMay 1, 2005
  9. Paul JacksonMay 2, 2005
  10. David A. WheelerMay 4, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 4, 2005
  12. Herbert XuMay 4, 2005
  13. Edgar ToernigApr 28, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
  15. Joshua T. CorbinApr 29, 2005
  16. Paul JacksonApr 30, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
  18. Paul JacksonApr 30, 2005
  19. Rene ScharfeApr 30, 2005
  20. Paul JacksonMay 2, 2005
  21. Petr BaudisMay 2, 2005
  22. Paul JacksonMay 3, 2005

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