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Re: SIGPIPE (again)



At 10:28 PM 8/10/2003, sjh@zorak.net wrote:
>On Sunday August 10, "Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
>> I really don't see this approach fixing much...  but it may
>
>How would it not fix the SIGPIPEs going to apps?

Because it only fixes limited instances of the problem.

>> break a few things.  Note that send(2) only works for sockets
>> while write(2) works on most any kind of descriptor.  While
>> normally the library is used with sockets, it can be used
>> with pipes, files, and such.
>
>Hmm, so liblber sometimes talks to files/pipes in sockbuf.c?

It's not limited to sockets.

Kurt