From kde-devel  Thu Aug 19 15:40:40 1999
From: Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:40:40 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KSocket Broken Pipe in KDE 1.x
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Herwin Jan Steehouwer (herwinjs@palet.nl) spake thusly:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the author of KXicq and i use KSocket for the TCP connection between
> clients.
> 
> Sometimes when i want to send something to a person it gets a error in the
> console: Broken Pipe and KXicq stops..
> 
> how can i catch that error without KXicq stops ?

  Install a Unix signal handler for SIGPIPE. The problem is that
whatever's listening to that socket has stopped listening to it,
but you're still writing to it.

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	Jo