true, so I just know a recent annoying one, gdb always stops on sigpipe. Quite annoying when you add a signal handler to ignore sigpipes; yet it keeps exiting..

true, so I just know a recent annoying one, gdb always stops on sigpipe. Quite annoying when you add a signal handler to ignore sigpipes; yet it keeps exiting... only to realise an hour later that gdb decides that for you on default. Though clear example of RTFM, PEBCaK.