I wonder if it's like insanities like SIGPIPE: it's kind of useful if you write IO tools in a few dozen/hundred lines of C. You don't need to carry around expli

I wonder if it's like insanities like SIGPIPE: it's kind of useful if you write IO tools in a few dozen/hundred lines of C. You don't need to carry around explicit context, or check if writes failed, or anything. Of course it sucks for anything else and we still have to deal with SIGPIPE .