On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:58:59PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > I also wonder whether we should also have a note that disabled SIGPIPE. > > similar to what paxctl does. > > You mean a system-wide flag? That would worry me; I think it would have > bad effects, since anything that did > > a | b > > would be liable to cause infinite loops if 'a' didn't check the return > code on the write() or printf() or what have you -- and such programs are > very common.
I believe he means a way to tag specific executables. I'm not sure if that's really worthwhile... One could provide a program like nohup, too. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
