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sort is overeager at reporting I/O errors
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Tom Lord |
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sort is overeager at reporting I/O errors |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:40:32 -0800 (PST) |
On the one hand, `sort' traps SIGPIPE.
On the other hand, `sort' spews an error message on stderr for EPIPE
on stdout.
sort: write error: broken pipe
So which is it? EPIPE to a shell tool on stdout shouldn't cause
stderr output.
-t
- sort is overeager at reporting I/O errors,
Tom Lord <=