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> it's not plain C behavior.

But pipes aren't a C thing in the first place. "unistd.h" is not a C thing, file descriptors aren't a C thing.



The C program would just be using stdio to interact with pipes.

And not every platform with pipes supports SIGPIPE with such behavior.




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