socket closing question

[Derek Atkins]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> The write(2) function returns -1 with errno==EPIPE when the socket has
> been closed. 

Actually, some times you'll get a SIGPIPE in this case...
So you probably should be careful to block/handle that signal.

-derek
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