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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?

1427

How do I send [this] over a socket?

1 2234

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

1 2057

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

1616

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?

1519

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1450

Where can a get a library for programming sockets?

1 2132

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

1646

How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1557

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

1970

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

1 2179

When will my application receive SIGPIPE?

1 2305

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

1 2570

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

1 2623

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How much ram do I have?

880

How many threads does an i7 8700k have?

762

How do I reinstall windows live mail?

900

Which is better 32 bit or 64 bit?

1007

What is smtp and how it works?

What is a reverse linked list.

1032

Do I need to buy a tablet to use windows 8.1?

940

How do I disable windows start menu?

906

What language is clang written in?

903

What are grep commands?

1056

Can you tell me something about wildcard interpretation?

907

Can you have 2 operating systems on one computer?

994

What is an executable jar file?

950

Name the data structure used to maintain file identification?

989

What are the 5 basic components of linux?

967

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