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Message-ID: <20070812170018.6f56a0dd@the-village.bc.nu>
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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