On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:27:57PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> ...
> <re. SIGPIPE handling>
> > %   error = so->so_proto->pr_usrreqs->pru_sosend(so, to, &auio, 0, control,
> > %                                                flags, td);
> > %   if (error) {
> > %           if (auio.uio_resid != len && (error == ERESTART ||
> > %               error == EINTR || error == EWOULDBLOCK))
> > %                   error = 0;
> > %           /* Generation of SIGPIPE can be controlled per socket */
> > %           if (error == EPIPE && !(so->so_options & SO_NOSIGPIPE)) {
> > %                   PROC_LOCK(td->td_proc);
> > %                   psignal(td->td_proc, SIGPIPE);
> >                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > %                   PROC_UNLOCK(td->td_proc);
> > %           }
> > %   }
> >
> > This code seems to have an interesting version of mishandling short
> > i/o counts (auio.uio_resid != len && auio.ui_resid != 0).  Short i/o
> > counts involving an interrupt are normally the only ones handled
> > correctly (by the ERESTART/EINTR/EWOULDBLOCK fixup).  However, in the
> > case of EPIPE/SIGPIPE, we only notice the SIGPIPE after we do the
> > fixup, so we never do the fixup and always return an error instead of
> > the short i/o count.
>
> this is probably harmless because the pipe is gone anyways,
> so it matters little how many bytes have been written, right ?

Depends what was in the bytes that were written.  Of course, with networks
even delivery of the bytes doesn't guarantee much.

Bruce

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