On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Troy Davis wrote:
> I have another question concerning sockets programming. The problem
> I am having is with broken pipes - there exists the possibility that one
> side of the connection (client side) will break it's connection in the
> middle of a data stream (either incoming or outgoing). Linux, which is
> running as the server side process with a blocking accept, then gives a
> broken pipe message and terminates the process. However, I would like
> the process to recover from this and return to a blocking accept -
> waiting for another connection instead of producing a broken pipe
> message and terminating the process.
> 'A SIGPIPE signal is raised if a process sends or receives on a
> broken stream', according to the man socket entry. How do I get my
> process to respond to a broken pipe and recover or pick up this SIGPIPE
> signal?
Install sighandler. See sources of "tee" program how to deal with it (find
sources to Debian shellutils package on http://www.debian.org/)
man sigaction
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