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sigpipe

Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe

May 14, 2023 by Tarik

The process received a SIGPIPE. The default behaviour for this signal is to end the process. A SIGPIPE is sent to a process if it tried to write to a socket that had been shutdown for writing or isn’t connected (anymore). To avoid that the program ends in this case, you could either make the … Read more

Categories c Tags c++, gdb, pthreads, sigpipe, sockets Leave a comment

IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe when piping: `prog.py | othercmd`

December 28, 2022 by Tarik

The problem is due to SIGPIPE handling. You can solve this problem using the following code: from signal import signal, SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_DFL) Update: As pointed out in the comments, python docs already have a good answer. See here for background on this solution. Better answer here.

Categories python Tags python, python-3.x, sigpipe Leave a comment

How to prevent SIGPIPEs (or handle them properly)

October 1, 2022 by Tarik

You generally want to ignore the SIGPIPE and handle the error directly in your code. This is because signal handlers in C have many restrictions on what they can do. The most portable way to do this is to set the SIGPIPE handler to SIG_IGN. This will prevent any socket or pipe write from causing … Read more

Categories c Tags broken-pipe, c++, io, signals, sigpipe Leave a comment

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