Exit when stdout is a broken pipe

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Fixes #8458

sites:list kept running after the reader closed the pipe, then the crash handler spawned envinfo over and over.

Writes now treat EPIPE as a normal stop and skip the crash report.

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• Bug Fixes

  • CLI commands now exit cleanly when their output is piped to a process that closes the stream early.
  • Broken-pipe errors no longer produce unnecessary error messages or nonzero exit codes.
  • Standard output and error handling now consistently manages closed output streams.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for common broken-pipe conditions and clean CLI termination.

Walkthrough

The CLI now recognizes EPIPE and ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED errors during output. Output helpers exit with status 0 for these errors and rethrow other errors. Standard output and error streams use dedicated broken-pipe handlers. Uncaught broken-pipe exceptions exit before generic exception handling. Unit tests cover error detection and logging behavior.

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Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 74d04

This change makes the CLI exit cleanly with status 0 when a downstream reader (like head or less) closes the output pipe early, instead of repeatedly retrying and leaking zombie processes. The investigation found no evidence of a new correctness or availability problem introduced by this fix, so it appears safe to merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: exiting normally when stdout encounters a broken pipe.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the broken-pipe bug, the repeated crash-handler behavior, and the fix implemented by the pull request.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #8458 by treating EPIPE and related broken-pipe errors as normal termination, preventing repeated crash handling and the resulting child-process leak.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within scope. The stdout and stderr handlers, broken-pipe detection, normal exit behavior, and related tests all support the linked issue objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…

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Inline comments:
In `@src/commands/main.ts`:
- Around line 80-84: Update exitIfBrokenPipe to rethrow the received error when
isBrokenPipe(err) is false, while preserving the existing clean process exit for
broken-pipe errors.

In `@tests/unit/utils/command-helpers.test.ts`:
- Line 41: Update the log assertion callback to use a block body so it invokes
log without implicitly returning its void result, while preserving the existing
expected "exited" exception behavior.

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