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-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index c79ce1041..32c8fce9a 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -482,7 +482,16 @@ void printMsg_(Verbosity level, const format & f)
else if (logType == ltEscapes && level != lvlInfo)
prefix = "\033[" + escVerbosity(level) + "s";
string s = (format("%1%%2%\n") % prefix % f.str()).str();
- writeToStderr((const unsigned char *) s.c_str(), s.size());
+ try {
+ writeToStderr((const unsigned char *) s.c_str(), s.size());
+ } catch (SysError & e) {
+ /* Ignore failing writes to stderr if we're in an exception
+ handler, otherwise throw an exception. We need to ignore
+ write errors in exception handlers to ensure that cleanup
+ code runs to completion if the other side of stderr has
+ been closed unexpectedly. */
+ if (!std::uncaught_exception()) throw;
+ }
}