I noticed that when signal SIGPIPE is raised,
the thread involved continues but becomes a zombie.

Looking at the code I noticed for instance
in Curl_write:

      bytes_written = swrite(sockfd, mem, len);
    if(-1 == bytes_written) {
      int err = Curl_ourerrno();

This is where the signal occurrs.
If the signal is discarded, are we sure that swrite() returns -1?

swrite() is indeed just a macro for calling send():

#define swrite(x,y,z) (size_t)send(x,y,z,0)

The fourth argument of send() is a flag, which can be
set to MSG_NOSIGNAL to avoid generating
the SIGPIPE signal.

This looks like a better solution than using signal()
to ignore the signal.

-- Beppe

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Received on 2003-12-02