Re: sh: killing a pipe head from the tail

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 16:38, Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
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> Is there a sane way to kill a pipe's head from within the pipe's tail, at least on tail exit? Of course, when the tail exits, the head will get SIGPIPE as soon
> as it tries to output something, but can the tail explicitly kill it earlier?

Can't you just close() the pipe? (or am I missing something obvious :)

David