In article <20060511140718.GA4008@britannica.bec.de>,
 <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
>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?
>

Linux and FreeBSD have it, so I guess it is more portable to add it.

christos