--gen-random ignores SIGPIPE

[Hauke Laging]

Hello,

start cmd:> gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19
libgcrypt 1.5.3

I would expect that "gpg --armor --gen-random 1" does not follow the 
documentation statement "If count is not given or zero, an endless sequence of 
random bytes will be emitted." unconditionally as this doesn't make any sense 
IMHO.

Reality:

gpg --armor --gen-random 1 30 | dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/null bs=10 count=1

terminates but

gpg --armor --gen-random 1 | dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/null bs=10 count=1

doesn't.


Hauke
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