Re: [Help-bash] When pipes fail (and when not)

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/27/18 5:32 AM, Paul Wagner wrote:
> Dear Bob,
> 
> a really really huge Thank You for the effort you put into this explanation!
> 
>> Therefore I conclude that your Android environment is mistakenly
>> installing a SIG_IGN handler for SIGPIPE in the environment.
> 
> With that as a working hypothesis, could I install my own SIGPIPE handler
> then and kill the subshell tee runs in?  

If bash starts up with a signal ignored, you can't install a trap for it or
reset its disposition to SIG_DFL. You have to fix the problem at its root.

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