From 604b74e5ce2b43560a130ae0a291cbd1e574770c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:23:45 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev.pod | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'ev.pod') diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index bef742d..0044dff 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -1136,10 +1136,9 @@ C. =head3 The special problem of SIGPIPE While not really specific to libev, it is easy to forget about SIGPIPE: -when reading from a pipe whose other end has been closed, your program -gets send a SIGPIPE, which, by default, aborts your program. For most -programs this is sensible behaviour, for daemons, this is usually -undesirable. +when writing to a pipe whose other end has been closed, your program gets +send a SIGPIPE, which, by default, aborts your program. For most programs +this is sensible behaviour, for daemons, this is usually undesirable. So when you encounter spurious, unexplained daemon exits, make sure you ignore SIGPIPE (and maybe make sure you log the exit status of your daemon -- cgit v1.2.3