Re: svn commit: r8204 - branches/1.0-stabilization

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:01, gstein@tigris.org wrote:
> + * Issue #1693
> + Improved signal handling for svnadmin, svnlook and svn
> + Justification: Avoids uncontrolled termination resulting in
> + wedged repositories. API change. Low risk.
> + Votes:
> + +1: bliss, rooneg, ghudson
> + -1: gstein
> + -- seems like a SIGPIPE should cause a graceful exit, rather
> + than to have it continue chewing CPU.

We ignore SIGPIPE in clients/cmdline/main.c as well. An actual output
error will result in an EPIPE, leading to an I/O error, leading to a
graceful exit.

Ignoring SIGPIPE is just something you do in order to write a robust
Unix program.

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Received on Fri Jan 9 03:17:27 2004