Re: [Plug] sockets

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

And...you can set up a handler to catch it [sigpipe] using the signal(2) 
function.

sorry for the multiple replies

k

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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:

> Er, broken pipe?  I think thats a signal, not an exception.  
> 
> k
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:
> 
> > I think you can do a select(2) to see what state the socket is in, and act
> > accordingly.  If that's not what you're looking for, try ioctl(2) [and 
> > subsequently ioctl_list(2), or fcntl(2).
> > 
> > 
> > See Richard Steven's books on netowrk, and unix programming.  They'll have
> > clearly written examples for anything you're trying to do.
> > 
> > It's not C or C++ specfic, it's library (socket) specific.
> > 
> > k
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> > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Alexander John Batyi wrote:
> > 
> > > Please forgive me for the nonlinux specific post.  (please please please)
> > > 
> > > How does one know a client socket has dropped off in C++.  Write to it and
> > > catch the "broken pipe" exception?
> > > 
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