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Is there any advantage to handling the signal, rather than just ignoring it and checking for the EPIPE error? Are there any useful parameters passed to the signal catching function?

1430

How do I send [this] over a socket?

1 2245

How come select says there is data, but read returns zero?

1 2061

How can I force a socket to send the data in its buffer?

1621

What are the pros/cons of select(), non-blocking I/O and SIGIO?

1365

Why does it take so long to detect that the peer died?

1521

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1456

Where can a get a library for programming sockets?

1 2139

Whats the difference between select() and poll()?

1654

How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1561

What is the difference between read() and recv()?

1976

After the chroot(), calls to socket() are failing. Why?

1 2183

When will my application receive SIGPIPE?

1 2314

How can I find the full hostname (FQDN) of the system I am running on?

1 2574

How can my client work through a firewall/proxy server?

1 2630

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How many threads run at once?

903

Can hyper threading hurt performance?

792

How can I upgrade my windows 7 to windows 10 for free?

840

Can I run 64 bit on x86 based pc windows 7?

851

Explain how do we change file access permissions?

957

Will I lose my files if I upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10?

796

Describe horizontal scalability and vertical scalability.

1103

Why ms dos is used?

1034

What is a hal error?

822

Explain the steps to insert data into a singly linked list?

879

Define internal nodes?

929

What is winui?

856

Can we add duplicate keys in a hashmap? What will happen if we attempt to add duplicate values?

845

Who invented grep?

1172

What are the disadvantages of bluestacks?

1022

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