GHCI crashes without error message

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed Apr 27 13:11:05 EDT 2005


On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Lemmih wrote:
>
> From the Network documentation
> (http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.html):
> "
> SIGPIPE
>
> On Unix, when reading from a socket and the writing end is closed by
> the remote client, the program is normally sent a SIGPIPE signal by
> the operating system.

Um, that's the wrong way round. In the situation described above the
program gets EOF. SIGPIPE is generated when the program *writes* to a
socket whose other end has been closed.

Tony.
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