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Re: SIGPIPE handling

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psz
Date:
April 29, 2004 03:06
Subject:
Re: SIGPIPE handling
Message ID:
200404290346.i3T3kaZ238367@milan.maths.usyd.edu.au
... and upon further investigation, the current perl ways are documented
behaviour:

  Programming Perl, Second Edition
  Larry Wall et al, O'Reilly 1996, ISBN 1-56592-149-6
  page 342:
    ... (If you are writing to a pipe, you should also be prepared to
    handle the PIPE signal, which is sent to you if the process on the
    other end dies before you are done sending to it.) ...

Bummer: I just made a fool of myself.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006  Australia

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