I pipe powermetrics' stdout to another process. When the reader process exits, powermetrics will encounter an error the next time it writes to stdout but it is evidently ignoring this because it continues to run forever. This needs to be fixed so powermetrics can function as a useful UNIX citizen.
This needs to be fixed
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