execute shell command pipeline
Jeff Epler
jepler at unpythonic.net
Thu Mar 25 15:44:05 EST 2004
The Python library manual says (http://python.org/doc/lib/module-signal.html)
Python installs a small number of signal handlers by default: SIGPIPE
is ignored (so write errors on pipes and sockets can be reported as
ordinary Python exceptions) and SIGINT is translated into a
KeyboardInterrupt exception. All of these can be overridden.
In perl, or from the shell, grep is terminated by SIGPIPE. In Python,
grep ignores the signal because the "ignored" status of SIGPIPE is
inherited by the child process. Instead, it prints the error once for
each write that returns -EPIPE.
Jeff
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