GHCI crashes without error message

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Thu Apr 28 04:45:53 EDT 2005


On 27 April 2005 18:11, Tony Finch wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, well spotted.  I've updated that comment.

Cheers,
	Simon


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