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vp aborts with SIGABRT when stdout is piped to a reader that exits early (| head)
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Description
## Repro (v0.3.1 linux-x64-gnu, also v0.3.0)
```bash
$ vp --version | head -n 1
vp v0.3.1
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
134
```
Same with any command that prints, e.g. `vp env list-remote --lts | head`.
## What happens
systemd-coredump records SIGABRT. Strings extracted from the core show the panic message:
```
thread 'main' panicked at library/std/src/io/stdio.rs:1168:9:
failed printing to stdout: Broken pipe (os error 32)
```
Root cause is the classic Rust EPIPE footgun: the runtime ignores SIGPIPE, `println!` panics on the resulting EPIPE error, and the binary is built with `panic=abort`, so a truncated pipe becomes SIGABRT plus a coredump.
## Related
#223 fixed the same panic in a `tokio-runtime-worker` thread, but the main-thread print path is still affected in 0.3.1 — every `vp` subcommand that writes to stdout can hit it.
## Expected
Exit quietly like standard Unix tools: restore SIG_DFL for SIGPIPE at startup (what ripgrep/bat/fd do), or swallow `ErrorKind::BrokenPipe` on stdout writes.
## Impact beyond the crash itself
Each occurrence litters a systemd coredump, and crash-notification tooling that re-runs `vp` to investigate (e.g. an agent running `vp --version | head`) turns one abort into a self-amplifying crash loop — I watched one `vp env list-remote` abort cascade into several more `vp --version` aborts this way.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the vp startup path and the main-thread stdout handling; reproduce with `vp --version | head -n 1` and `vp env list-remote --lts | head`. Trace how SIGPIPE and BrokenPipe are handled, then verify that truncated-pipe commands exit quietly without SIGABRT or a coredump.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
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- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 76/100