Tom Lane wrote:
>Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:
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>>signal handlers are a process property, not a thread property - that
>>code is broken for multi-threaded apps.
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>Yeah, that's been mentioned before, but I don't see any way around it.
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Do not handle SIGPIPE on multithreaded apps, and ask the caller to do
that? The current code doesn't block SIGPIPE reliably, which makes it
totally useless (except that it's a debugging nightmare, because
triggering it depends on the right timing).
>What we really want is to turn off SIGPIPE delivery on our socket
>(only), but AFAIK there is no API to do that.
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Linux has as MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for send(), but that seems to be Linux
specific.
-- Manfred