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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:42:25 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Vladimir Terziev <vladimirt@rila.bg>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems catching SIGPIPE when writing to a broken stream
Message-ID:  <20020923134225.GD361@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20020923163418.216b14ae.vladimirt@rila.bg>
References:  <20020923163418.216b14ae.vladimirt@rila.bg>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:34:18PM +0300, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 
> 	Hi hackers,
> 
> 	I'm implementing a programmme, which writes a big amount of data (using write(2)) to a socket.
> 	When the communication stream has been closed by some reason, during the write(2) call, my process receives SIGPIPE. I tryed to catch it with signal(3) and change the behaviour of write(2) call with siginterrupt(3), but SIGPIPE is still raised to my process and terminates it.
> 
> 	Any help and ideas will be useful!

You should receive a short write(2) before the SIGPIPE is sent, most
probably a write() which returns -1 and sets errno to, say, ECONNRESET
or something like that.  Are you sure *all* your previous writes return
as many bytes as you have tried to write?

G'luck,
Peter

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