On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:18:29AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> MSG_NOSIGNAL
> 	Requests not to send SIGPIPE on errors on stream oriented sockets
> 	when the other end breaks the connection. The EPIPE error is
> 	still returned.

So why not set the signal handler for SIGPIPE instead and be a lot more
portable?

Joerg