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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:20:56 am | by SamJansen | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:32:58 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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MSG_NOSIGNAL is a flags used by 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.
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+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.
