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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:56:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Non-blocking I/O on sockets and closed sockets?
Message-ID:  <199608240656.IAA09275@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199608232307.XAA00363@peedub.gj.org> from Gary Jennejohn at "Aug 23, 96 11:07:09 pm"

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As Gary Jennejohn wrote:

>  Another pssibility
> is to have a SIGPIPE handler; a read from a closed socket should result
> in a SIGPIPE.

I don't think so.  SIGPIPE translates into ``Write on a pipe with
noone reading.'', i.e. it's just the opposite.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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