Re: SIGPIPE-equivalent before writing?

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> If it's primarily just an annoyance issue for user-driven tools like
> pagers (is there anything else???), then maybe the best idea is just to
> teach the pager(s) to kill the feeder if they are reading from a pipe
> (probably with SIGPIPE).
But the pager can't know whether you would want the feeder to finish.
Maybe the last thing you saw in the pager was something like
	All done, rebuilding index. This may take some while.
and you neither want to wait that to finish nor interrupt it.