Patch: SIGPIPE and DISABLE_JAVA_NET

Jeff Sturm jsturm@one-point.com
Wed May 23 18:27:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, 23 May 2001, Anthony Green wrote:
> Is this better?

I think so.

> Could somebody explain how the sigaction code is different
> from my simple `signal' call?

signal() on many platforms will reset to SIG_DFL after it is handled.  For
that reason sigaction() is preferred for most uses of signal.

In the case of SIG_IGN, the SIGPIPE is never handled, so
there is probably no difference whatsoever.

Jeff




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