Re: [PATCH] pager: exit without error on SIGPIPE

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Getting back to the point, whatever anyone thinks of returning SIGHUP as
>> we do now or not, I think it's bonkers to ignore SIGHUP and *then*
>> return a non-zero *only in the non-atexit case*.
>>
>> That just means that if you do have a broken pager you're going to get
>> flaky exits depending on the state of our flushed buffers, who's going
>> to be helped by such a fickle exit code?
>>
>> So if we're going to change the behavior to not return SIGHUP, and don't
>> want to refactor our entire atexit() handling in #2 to be guaranteed to
>> pass down the pager's exit code, I don't see how anything except the
>> approach of just exit(0) in that case makes sense, which is what Denton
>> Liu's patch initially suggested doing.
>
> Then we are on the same page (assuming that all your HUPs are
> PIPEs)