From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:13:25 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get bash to shut up about SIGPIPE?
Message-ID: <427143E5.4080505@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504281217100.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds schrieb:
> 
> 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