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Re: Adding an option to avoid SIGPIPE for all file descriptors



On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 21:33:44 +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> Unfortunately noone did ever think about a SIGNOSPACE and that's
> why every Unix system now requires an infinite disk.

Well, that does sound like a resource limit being exceeded, so why
not send

     25    SIGXFSZ       terminate process    file size limit exceeded (see
                                              setrlimit(2))
?
-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- There's no point being grown-up if you 
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor


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