Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:50:54 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/78479: SO_NOSIGPIPE socket option undocumented Message-ID: <20050305185017.C693@antec.home> Resent-Message-ID: <200503060300.j2630Ytk075753@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 78479 >Category: docs >Synopsis: SO_NOSIGPIPE socket option undocumented >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 06 03:00:33 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mikko Tyolajarvi >Release: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD sotec.home 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #28: Sat Mar 5 16:58:15 PST 2005 mikko@sotec.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOTEC i386 >Description: The SO_NOSIGPIPE socket option that can be used to disable SIGPIPE generation on a per-socket basis is not mentioned in getsockopt(2). >How-To-Repeat: man getsockopt >Fix: Somehting like this: Index: getsockopt.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/sys/getsockopt.2,v retrieving revision 1.32 diff -b -u -r1.32 getsockopt.2 --- getsockopt.2 20 Jan 2005 09:17:05 -0000 1.32 +++ getsockopt.2 6 Mar 2005 02:05:26 -0000 @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ .It Dv SO_SNDTIMEO Ta "set timeout value for output" .It Dv SO_RCVTIMEO Ta "set timeout value for input" .It Dv SO_ACCEPTFILTER Ta "set accept filter on listening socket" +.It Dv SO_NOSIGPIPE Ta "disable generation of SIGPIPE for the socket" .It Dv SO_TYPE Ta "get the type of the socket (get only)" .It Dv SO_ERROR Ta "get and clear error on the socket (get only)" .El @@ -355,6 +356,13 @@ Passing in an .Fa optval of NULL will remove the filter. +.Pp +The +.Dv SO_NOSIGPIPE +option disables the SIGPIPE signal normally sent when writing to a +connected socket where the other end has been closed returns with +the error +.Er EPIPE . .Pp Finally, .Dv SO_TYPE >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:help
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