From d5d1e6c11e3cb210fc87220995952b98da961c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 15:41:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore broken pipe errors when readon data from update check
 worker

---
 kitty/boss.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/boss.py b/kitty/boss.py
index 3137034c2..6f621e52a 100644
--- a/kitty/boss.py
+++ b/kitty/boss.py
@@ -990,7 +990,14 @@ class Boss:
         if update_check_process is not None and pid == update_check_process.pid:
             self.update_check_process = None
             from .update_check import process_current_release
-            process_current_release(update_check_process.stdout.read().decode('utf-8'))
+            try:
+                raw = update_check_process.stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
+            except BrokenPipeError:
+                pass
+            except Exception as e:
+                log_error('Failed to read data from update check process, with error: {}'.format(e))
+            else:
+                process_current_release(raw)
 
     def notification_activated(self, identifier):
         if identifier == 'new-version':