[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg: Ignore SIGPIPE

Mark Thompson sw at jkqxz.net
Fri Jan 26 01:35:31 EET 2018


On 25/01/18 23:22, Nicolas George wrote:
> Mark Thompson (2018-01-25):
>> And applied.
> 
> I am glad to see that my advice was so well taken into account. From now
> on, I will defer to you on matters relating to Unix system programming,
> especially signals, shall I?

Please don't.  In this case the semantics of ignoring the signal are clear and I think we can be confident the change is ok, but that certainly isn't true in almost all other cases (especially if people are going to catch signals and do something in the signal handler).

- Mark


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