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

[arnold]

Hi.

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> On Jan 02 2024, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
>
> > The awk gettimeofday() call should simply map to the gettimeofday()
> > system call, and systime() maps to time().
>
> The gettimeofday and time functions use different time sources with
> differing precision, so they may move to the next second at slightly
> different points.

I have just now pushed changes so that both gawk and gettimeofday()
use the same system call. clock_gettime() is preferred, then
gettimeofday(), and then time().

I note that gettimeofday() can return a value that includes
fractions of a second, whereas systime() only returns whole
seconds. That may also be part of the problem.

I will eventually try to do something else about SIGPIPE, but it's
not high on my list.

Thanks,

Arnold