> For that particular project I could hack around it, but I am quite
> surprised that POLLHUP event was not generated, as the general BSD
> sockets API was generally followed by the UNIX domain.

POLLHUP was not part of the BSD sockets API; the Berkeley way was
sockets and select, the SV way was STREAMS and poll.  Mixing sockets
and poll is miscegenation of a sort.

Of course, part of the problem is inherent to TCP, one of the few
design bugs in TCP.  There is no way for a receiver to push "no more
receives" status back to the sender (at least not without accompanying
it with "no more sends").  I conjecture that this is least part of the
reason the API does not provide a non-abnormal way to indicate send
attempts on a connection that can't accept any further sends - there's
no send_without_sigpipe() call, if you will.

That's not to say it couldn't be done for AF_LOCAL sockets, of course,
nor even that it wouldn't be a good idea.  Just perhaps that it's
understandable that it's not done.

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