Re: sort is overeager at reporting I/O errors

[Bob Proulx]

> On the one hand, `sort' traps SIGPIPE.
> On the other hand, `sort' spews an error message on stderr for EPIPE
> on stdout.
> 
>       sort: write error: broken pipe

Could you provide a small example that illustrates this behavior?
Also include the --version output and the operating system you are
running on.  Something like this.

  sort /etc/profile | head -n 1

  sort --version
  uname -a

Thanks
Bob