About SIGPIPE, plz help

grupoapunte · 07-10-2005, 12:16 PM

Hi, i want to know what happend if i capture signal SIGPIPE and do nothing with it, if thats wrong what should i do with it? can i continue executing the program by any meens?

Dark_Helmet · 07-10-2005, 12:36 PM

Did you try Google for Linux? I searched for "SIGPIPE" and found the answer to your question on the first link.

Linux.com

surojitmukerji · 07-13-2005, 08:34 AM

The SIGPIPE signal is posted by the kernel to the writer end of a pipe which has a detatched or closed reader. You can use this signal to take any corrective actions while / before you shutdown the writer end of the pipe.

Normally the write call would error out eith an EPIPE, so handling this signal is not essential.