Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:51:11PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> + if (err == EPIPE) { >>> + signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL); >>> + raise(SIGPIPE); >>> + /* Should never happen, but just in case... */ >>> + exit(141); >> >> How about >> >> die("BUG: another thread changed SIGPIPE handling behind my back!"); >> >> to make it easier to find and fix such problems? > > You mean for the "should never happen" bit, not the first part, right? I > actually wonder if we should simply exit(141) in the first place. That > is shell exit-code for SIGPIPE death already (so it's what our > run_command would show us, and what anybody running us through shell > would see). Yes, for the "should never happen" part. Raising a signal is nice because it means the wait()-ing process can see what happened by checking WIFSIGNALED(status). Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html