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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:57:38 pm | by DavidArnold | Revert |
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MSG_NOSIGNAL is a flag used by send() in some implementations of the Berkeley sockets [API].
This flag requests that the implementation does not to send a [SIGPIPE] signal on errors on stream oriented sockets when the other end breaks the connection. The [EPIPE] error is still returned as normal.
-Though it is in some Berkely sockets APIs (notable
Linux) it does not exist in what some refer to as the reference implementation, [FreeBSD] lacks this option.
+Though it is in some Berkely sockets APIs (notably
Linux) it does not exist in what some refer to as the reference implementation, [FreeBSD] lacks this option, instead using a socket option [SO_NOSIGPIPE]
.
