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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-07-31T08·31+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-07-31T08·31+0200
commit50dc1f5b71f7e0e4ba628904b9a47d9f9d875b3e (patch)
tree770054765d335695236e3c1c26f952a9aa76ff29 /src/libutil/util.cc
parent45f9a91e186d91edbf2bed7d27b7fa7227730596 (diff)
Restore default SIGPIPE handler before invoking ‘man’
Fixes NixOS/nixpkgs#3410.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.cc')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index aa9d99ec3353..f762b79c24da 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -927,6 +927,16 @@ void closeOnExec(int fd)
 }
 
 
+void restoreSIGPIPE()
+{
+    struct sigaction act, oact;
+    act.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
+    act.sa_flags = 0;
+    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
+    if (sigaction(SIGPIPE, &act, &oact)) throw SysError("resetting SIGPIPE");
+}
+
+
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////