scripts: handle BrokenPipeError for python scripts
In the follow-up of commit fb3041d6 ("kbuild: fix SIGPIPE error message for AR=gcc-ar and AR=llvm-ar"), Kees Cook pointed out that tools should _not_ catch their own SIGPIPEs [1] [2]. Based on his feedback, LLVM was fixed [3]. However, Python's default behavior is to show noisy bracktrace when SIGPIPE is sent. So, scripts written in Python are basically in the same situation as the buggy llvm tools. Example: $ make -s allnoconfig $ make -s allmodconfig $ scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | head -n1 -ALIX n Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/masahiro/linux/scripts/diffconfig", line 132, in <module> main() File "/home/masahiro/linux/scripts/diffconfig", line 130, in main print_config("+", config, None, b[config]) File "/home/masahiro/linux/scripts/diffconfig", line 64, in print_config print("+%s %s" % (config, new_value)) BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe Python documentation [4] note...
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