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Commit 87c7ee67 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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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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