echo >[1=] kills the shell

[jpco]

Surely there must be a better way to handle broken writes than simply imploding.

[jpco]

Related old rc mailing list thread https://inbox.vuxu.org/rc-list/[email protected]/T/#t

There's some lack of consensus on what the right thing to do is if you can't print an error to stderr -- either bail entirely or quietly stew. Seems in es' case there could be some benefit to trying to throw an error instead of just exiting, for the usual unwinding reasons?