Re: 1.2.x and SIGPIPE

Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I see that in 1.2.x the authenticate function ignores SIGPIPE and this 
>>leaves alot of "zombie" bincimap-up processes on our boxes after a 
>>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 
> read() still return -1 and errno will be set to EPIPE.
> 
> I do see "sleeping" bincimap-up processes sometimes, but never saw any 
> zombies. So there's definitely something we can do about the former..

I am going to run a small patch on my testserver to see if I can get it 
to work better. I will also add the capability to close the connection 
protocolwise if any of the daemons receives SIGTERM.

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Jerry Lundström
Sektionen för IT och media, Stockholms universitet
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