linux-kernel - Re: Finding out socket/pipe connectivity status

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Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:00:18 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding out socket/pipe connectivity status

> when a pipe/socket is broken, the process trying to read/write to it 
> gets SIGPIPE. Is there a way to detect whether the next read/write will 
> trigger a SIGPIPE? select() does not seem helpful here.

select considers the broken pipe an error that needs reporting so it goes
ready. Processes that are network aware normally set SIGPIPE to SIG_IGN.
The default behaviour comes from a desire that non aware programs
shouldn't get stuck spinning on a network error but go away.

If you ignore the signal you'll get a event from select, and then an
error code.
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