Re: 1.2.x and SIGPIPE

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On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jerry Lundstr=C3=B6m wrote:
> Hi,
> I see that in 1.2.x the authenticate function ignores SIGPIPE and this=20
> leaves alot of "zombie" bincimap-up processes on our boxes after a=20
> while. I was just wondering what the reason for ignoring it was?

Ignoring SIGPIPE just means we don't care about the signal - write() and=20
read() still return -1 and errno will be set to EPIPE.

I do see "sleeping" bincimap-up processes sometimes, but never saw any=20
zombies. So there's definitely something we can do about the former..

Andy :-)

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."


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