Wonderful, will do! Thanks to all! On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> Jonathon, > > Please don't use SIGPIPE. That's just a hack from the 1970s to make simple > command line programs die when their input goes away. Instead, please call > signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) right inside of main(). Thereafter, Unix APIs like > read(), write(), etc will return -1 and errno will be equal to EPIPE. > > davez > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: > >> On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: >> >>> Taking "by value" to mean "as many uninterpreted bits as will fit into a >>> variable of type void*," yes. >> >> On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote: >> >>> Yes, that is the nature of void *. Nothing can be known about a void * >>> other than the value – therefore you can store anything there (even >>> non-pointers as long as they are <= sizeof(void *)). >> >> Awesome! I get it now. This all came about because I am getting an >> occasional SIGPIPE when one of my read sources is closed on the client end, >> so having a context is great. Thanks!! >> >> BTW, is there an inherent signal-handling capability with GCD so my program >> doesn't get blown out of the water when a SIGPIPE happens? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zarzycki%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to zarzy...@apple.com > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
