From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: bug-guile mailing list <bug-guile@gnu.org>, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Subject: Re: Problem with netcat
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:36:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei588zc9.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrj1mcgu.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:14:25 +0200")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
> I pushed a (sigaction SIGPIPE SIG_IGN) to (system repl repl), which
> should fix the issue.
Isn't this a bad idea? SIGPIPE generally indicates that something went
wrong. If we ignore it, important problems may go unnoticed. To me,
this seems kind of like ignoring SIGSEGV to get around a memory access
to an unmapped area that would be inconvenient to prevent.
Furthermore, what happens if a REPL is started within a Guile process
that wants to install its own handler for SIGPIPE?
Why is a pipe being created here, anyway? Why not just a socket?
Best,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-11 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-03 21:23 Problem with netcat John Proctor
2011-04-04 21:16 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-06 10:52 ` Detlev Zundel
[not found] ` <BANLkTimDrGF+3TQdXzwjQ-mWbUj1VMYA6g@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-07 16:04 ` Detlev Zundel
2011-04-11 8:14 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-11 14:32 ` Detlev Zundel
2011-04-11 17:35 ` John Proctor
2011-04-11 17:36 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2011-04-11 18:03 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-13 9:08 ` Detlev Zundel
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