Work-around yet another bug of hopelessly broken MacOS X

[vlc] / bin / vlc.c

diff --git a/bin/vlc.c b/bin/vlc.c
index 55f7c5f70fe1a9bf403ab3f3d14a6c4a346d8987..5ca5a16c8fa23848ef01171a3bfdacccab702ab3 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/vlc.c
+++ b/bin/vlc.c
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
 {
     int i_ret;
 
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+    /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X is not. 
+     * SIGPIPE fires even when it is blocked in all threads! */
+    signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+#endif
+
 #ifndef ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT
     if (geteuid () == 0)
     {