Re: SIGPIPE-equivalent before writing?

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

> how many - and which - use cases would break if all readers going away 
> produced an immediate SIGPIPE to anyone with the write end still open 
> (ie, not waiting for anything to be written)?
Well, anything that, at the end, does something uninteresting (regarding 
its output) that takes a long time.

But whatever, POSIX wouldn't allow that behaviour, would it?