What is the current status of using MSG_NOSIGNAL? I found the test for it in configure.in, there's also HAVE_MSG_NOSIGNAL define, but I find it rather inconsistent across the code.
As far as I know MSG_NOSIGNAL should be used to prevent some system calls from raising SIGPIPE signal. The alternative is to install a handler and simply ignore the signal by signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN). In the code, there are some places where MSG_NOSIGNAL is actually used but there's no signal(...) call in cases where MSG_NOSIGNAL isn't supported. Is it supposed to be that way? I can prepare a patch to make it consistent but I'm not sure if we shouldn't just ignore SIGPIPE in all cases and forget using MSG_NOSIGNAL at all. I found at least 2 more places where using MSG_NOSIGNAL would be advised: sendto() and recvfrom() system calls in io-layer/sockets.c, but I'm unaware of other places where it is also needed. Ignoring the signal would solve all the problems, I think. Awaiting your comments, Jarek _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
