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On 15 Oct, 2010, at 02:50 , John Gilmore wrote: >> - bytesSent = ::send(_socket, buf, toWrite, MSG_NOSIGNAL); >> + // I'd like to get no SIGPIPE here, as we wouldn't >> + // know how to handle. Instead, for broken pipe I'd >> + // prefer being notified with a return of -1. >> + // Is that possible, in a standard way ? >> + // MSG_NOSIGNAL was reported as being non-standard flag.. >> + bytesSent = ::send(_socket, buf, toWrite, 0); > > The usual way is to do: > > signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); > > which says to ignore that signal rather than deliver it. This is a > stateful setting, which remains set until the process ends or you > change it. This is a portable construct (though most other uses > of signal() are not portable). I think sigaction() is preferable under any circumstances even though this one is portable. The problem is that sighandler_t is a GNU libc extension which isn't defined in BSD libc etc. However we can define it pretty easy as a pointer to a callback. > > The return value can be used to re-establish the former SIGPIPE > handler if you want; or it can just be thrown away if you're doing > this in mainline (rather than library) code and you know you don't > ever want to restore the default or former setting. > Yes, this is an issue with signal() and return values, which must be taken care of as a callback-pointer. > John > I'll digg into sigaction() later tonite if those damn headhunters stop calling me. ;-) //Markus > _______________________________________________ > Gnash-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev //Markus - The panama-hat hacker -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMvBu56I0XmJx2NrwRAsdHAJ9ywdcwSCiA0Zpq8V0FgPUY3dnyUACcCmyC XFJ4HOf4A0zgODfEAQG2MhU= =MRf6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
