Re: Enhancement request for tee - please add the option to not quit on SIGPIPE when someother files are still opened

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20/11/15 02:20, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I'm coming around to making a change here.
>>
>> Either be quiet about:
>>   datagen | tee >(sha1sum --tag) >(md5sum --tag) >&- | sort | gpg --clearsign
>>
>> Or support:
>>   datagen | tee --no-stdout >(sha1sum --tag) >(md5sum --tag) | sort | gpg 
>> --clearsign
>>
>> I like the idea of supporting this with no new option.
>> I see we have similar EBADF handling in touch and nohup.
>> I'll sleep on it.
>
> The attached supports the >&- usage above.

Doesn't this suppress a diagnostic that is likely to be valuable to anyone who
accidentally runs an affected tool from a context with closed standard output?