From: olczyk@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml 3.06 bug
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:53:48 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d99d2ab.4138061750@smtp.interaccess.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021001115728.A4962@pauillac.inria.fr>
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:57:28 +0200, Xavier Leroy
<xavier.leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
>> There is a bug in the Unix library, which makes my program exit with
>> no warning message.
>>
>> It happens when I call Unix.write two times on a descriptor closed
>> by the other side.
>
>It's not an OCaml bug, it's a Unix feature. Writes on a socket that
>corresponds to a closed connection generates a SIGPIPE signal, whose
>default effect is to kill your process.
>
>There are ways to catch SIGPIPE or to replace it by an error code
>generated by Unix.write; please consult a Unix programming guide
>(e.g. Steven's books).
>
You are begging the question.
Reading Stevens won't help much if you don't know how signals are
handled in OCaml.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-20 13:47 Cezary Kaliszyk
2002-10-01 9:57 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-01 16:53 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk [this message]
2002-10-01 17:41 ` Luc Maranget
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