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-rw-r--r--guix/ui.scm12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index fd35c6a8c8..2ee8c02306 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ messages."
"Perform the usual initialization for stand-alone Guix commands."
(install-locale)
(textdomain "guix")
+
+ ;; Ignore SIGPIPE. If the daemon closes the connection, we prefer to be
+ ;; notified via an EPIPE later.
+ (sigaction SIGPIPE SIG_IGN)
+
(setvbuf (current-output-port) _IOLBF)
(setvbuf (current-error-port) _IOLBF))
@@ -171,7 +176,12 @@ General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>"))
;; FIXME: Server-provided error messages aren't i18n'd.
(leave (_ "build failed: ~a~%")
(nix-protocol-error-message c))))
- (thunk)))
+ ;; Catch EPIPE and the likes.
+ (catch 'system-error
+ thunk
+ (lambda args
+ (leave (_ "~a~%")
+ (strerror (system-error-errno args)))))))
(define (read/eval-package-expression str)
"Read and evaluate STR and return the package it refers to, or exit an