[Debian-science-sagemath] GAP: issue related to compressed manual.six: PATCHES

[Ximin Luo]

Bill Allombert:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:01:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Bill Allombert:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry I only just briefly scanned through the thread now. However I
>> found this post relating to gzip, pipes and python:
>>
>> https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/02/a-very-subtle-bug/
>>
>> which summarises the bug report here: https://bugs.python.org/issue1652
> 
> Yes, this is exactly the problem, and it seems it has been fixed in python 3,
> but not in python 2.7.
> 

Ok, good to know! The blog post also contains a work-around near the end, which is to add

  preexec_fn=lambda: signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)

as a parameter to the relevant Popen call. Presumably in this case it's wherever Sage calls GAP. Jerome, could you test?

X

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