[Python-Dev] SIGPIPE => SIG_IGN? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Sep 10 02:51:13 CEST 2005


I was wondering, why are we setting SIGPIPE to SIGIGN in initsigs():

Because you can get a SIGPIPE from writing to a socket whose other side has shut down, and we want to turn that into an error.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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