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From: lijewski@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Mike Lijewski)
Subject: problem w/ UNIX domain stream sockets
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 00:59:39 GMT


This question probably belongs in comp.unix.programmer, but since I'm
doing it in Perl, I thought I'd post here first.  I have a client-
server pair on a UNIX domain stream socket.  I've discovered that if
I interrupt the client with a ^C, that the server will die a silent
death.  This happens regardless of whether I'm using print or
syswrite and trying to catch errors.  I've written a small testcase
in C with which I get the same behaviour, so it isn't a Perl
problem.  Nevertheless, I'd appreciate it if anyone could enlighten
me as to what is going on.  I can disable keyboard generated signals
in the client, but I'd rather do it the "right" way (using setsockopt
perhaps?).

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