Re: [systemd-devel] Reason for IgnoreSIGPIPE=true by default

2014-08-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.07.14 20:22, Ansgar Burchardt (ans...@debian.org) wrote: Heya! I think I replied to this since on IRC, but just for the sake of completeness of the ML archives: > I'm wondering what the reason for IgnoreSIGPIPE to default to true is. > The documentation just states that SIGPIPE is pr

[systemd-devel] Reason for IgnoreSIGPIPE=true by default

2014-07-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I'm wondering what the reason for IgnoreSIGPIPE to default to true is. The documentation just states that Defaults to true because SIGPIPE generally is useful only in shell pipelines. But I don't think that this alone is a good reason to change the default. It can confuse programs w