Re: TEE bug?

[Bob Proulx]

Dean K. Gibson wrote:
> When the output from "tee" is piped to "head" (or presumably any other 
> program that does not read all of stdin), tee gives "broken pipe" and 
> "write error" error messages.

That is a pretty strong indication that your session has changed the
default signal handling to ignore SIGPIPE.  If so then that is a bug
in your process environment.  It is probably this one:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-11/msg00154.html

You can read about a previous discussion of this problem here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-11/msg00007.html

> Of course piping stderr to /dev/null gets rid of the messages.  You 
> might consider an option to suppress the messages in this case, while 
> allowing other messages.

This isn't the bug that you thought it was.  It is a different bug.

Bob