Broken Pipes When Writing To Stopped Processes

jdd at allegra.UUCP jdd at allegra.UUCP
Wed Jul 27 01:29:43 AEST 1983


We all know that a process receives a SIGPIPE signal if it writes to a pipe
which no process can read from.  But did you know that it can \also/ get a
SIGPIPE if there \is/ such a process but it is \stopped/?

Cheers,
John ("It Took Me Forever To Find This One") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill



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