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From: leh@atlantis.cis.ufl.edu (Les Hill)
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Subject: Re: question about non-blocking I/O and SIGPIPE
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Date: 25 Mar 91 19:20:14 GMT
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In article <14318@life.ai.mit.edu>, sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan) writes:
|> I've read the man pages, but this info is not found anywhere. 
...asks why he is dying on a SIGPIPE...

You may have indeed read the man pages, you did NOT read them carefully.
The SunOS man page for write(2v) under the ERRORS heading clearly answers your question (look at EPIPE.)

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