bug#23031: reporting write errors and handling SIGPIPE

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 03/17/2016 02:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 09:14 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > Attached is a patch that adds errno information to 'write error' messages
>
> Thanks, I installed the attached somewhat-tweaked version of that. Among other things I 
> renamed the new static functions to avoid confusion with existing "safer" 
> functions.
>
> This doesn't address the SIGPIPE mystery so I'll leave the bug report open, but 
> my guess is that this part isn't really a grep bug.

Thanks for the inclusion and the additional information.
This is indeed not a bug in grep (and thus closed).

I found that on my weird setup, programs start with SIGPIPE set to SIG_IGN by 
default (not sure how I got myself into such situation).

regards,
 - assaf