Re: gawk: sigpipe1.awk:7: fatal: print to "yes | true" failed: Broken pipe

[arnold]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> On Dez 11 2023, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > This is basically a timing problem / race condition, and you can
> > ignore it.
>
> What's the point of the test if it doesn't test anything?

It tests gawk's handling of SIGPIPE.  I don't remember the details.
Occasionally proceses finish in a different order from most of the
time and the test fails.

So, yeah, there's potential for flakiness here that's inherent, but
most of the time it's not a problem and I don't think there's anything
fundamentally wrong.

Arnold