Commit a2510732 authored by Alfred Perlstein's avatar Alfred Perlstein Committed by Łukasz Langa

Warn not to set SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL (#6773)

parent 0e6e7a1e
......@@ -503,3 +503,37 @@ be sent, and the handler raises an exception. ::
signal.alarm(0) # Disable the alarm
Note on SIGPIPE
---------------
Piping output of your program to tools like :manpage:`head(1)` will
cause a :const:`SIGPIPE` signal to be sent to your process when the receiver
of its standard output closes early. This results in an exception
like :code:`BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe`. To handle this
case, wrap your entry point to catch this exception as follows::
import os
import sys
def main():
try:
# simulate large output (your code replaces this loop)
for x in range(10000):
print("y")
# flush output here to force SIGPIPE to be triggered
# while inside this try block.
sys.stdout.flush()
except BrokenPipeError:
# Python flushes standard streams on exit; redirect remaining output
# to devnull to avoid another BrokenPipeError at shutdown
devnull = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_WRONLY)
os.dup2(devnull, sys.stdout.fileno())
sys.exit(1) # Python exits with error code 1 on EPIPE
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Do not set :const:`SIGPIPE`'s disposition to :const:`SIG_DFL`
in order to avoid :exc:`BrokenPipeError`. Doing that would cause
your program to exit unexpectedly also whenever any socket connection
is interrupted while your program is still writing to it.
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