[FFmpeg-trac] #8917(undetermined:open): Exit on SIGPIPE or SIGHUP - "-xerror" not working as expected

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#8917: Exit on SIGPIPE or SIGHUP - "-xerror" not working as expected
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             Reporter:  atom         |                    Owner:
                 Type:  defect       |                   Status:  open
             Priority:  normal       |                Component:
                                     |  undetermined
              Version:  4.2          |               Resolution:
             Keywords:  sigpipe      |               Blocked By:
  sighup error xerror                |
             Blocking:               |  Reproduced by developer:  0
Analyzed by developer:  0            |
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Changes (by cmiceli):

 * status:  new => open


Comment:

 Hi!

 I had a look at the source to see what the current code does and a few
 different things were there.

 SIGHUP is not handled as a signal, and as per the man page for signals
 (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html) it causes the
 software to terminate. A way to test this is to run

 {{
 ffmpeg -listen 1 -i http://127.0.0.1:9999 -c copy somefile.ogg
 }}

 and then kill -HUP that process. If that is not the case, I'm happy to
 explicitly add a signal handler to that effect as it may vary by platform.
 I don't speak for the ffmpeg community at large, but I suspect that it
 would be reasonable to be specific about that.

 With regards to SIGPIPE, it is explicitly ignored because of a commit
 (74cf4a75f74ee3d80d021fc50b05e38bff5940e3). I will raise a question about
 it in the developer mailing list because it might be worth changing the
 behaviour.

 Thanks,
 Chris.

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