Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:32:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGPIPE and threaded servers Message-ID: <20030324013200.GK63147@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200303240122.h2O1MHuq046776@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> References: <200303240122.h2O1MHuq046776@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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In the last episode (Mar 23), Dave Hayes said:
> I have a relatively simple threaded TCP server that services high
> volumes of requests. Currently it appears to randomly crash receiving
> a SIGPIPE.
>
> Attempts to ignore SIGPIPE via the sigaction() semantic only prevent
> me from sending the signal with "kill" to test whether or not SIGPIPE
> is actually ignored. =/
Then it's being ignored and your job is done :)
> What is going on here?
From the signal manpage:
Name Default Action Description
---- -------------- -----------
SIGPIPE terminate process write on a pipe with no reader
It's doing just what it is supposed to.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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