On Mon, Feb 01 2021, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 01.02.21 um 16:44 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: >> On Mon, Feb 01 2021, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> On 2021-02-01 13:10:21 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: >>>> So we've got the SIGPIPE to indicate the output wasn't fully >>>> consumed. >>> >>> But the user doesn't care: he quit the pager because he didn't >>> need more output. So there is no need to signal that the output >>> wasn't fully consumed. The user already knew that before quitting >>> the pager! >> >> As noted above, this is assuming way too much about the functionality of >> the pager command. We can get a SIGPIPE without the user's intent in >> this way. Consider e.g. piping to some remote system via netcat. > > That assumption is warranted, IMO. Aren't _you_ stretching the meaning > of "pager" too far here? A pager is intended for presentation to the > user. If someone plays games with it, they should know what they get. FWIW I replied to this in https://lore.kernel.org/git/87r1lxeuoj.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Whatever anyone thinks of the virtues of passing down SIGHUP having e.g a nc to a remote box be your pager isn't all that unusual.
