I personally don't know why pipes are even in use in the openssl internals (though I bet there is a good reason for it :-)
Ignoring SIGPIPE (or most signals for that matter) is not really that good. They get generated for good reasons. In my case, depending on what came down the wire, I have to interact with other utilities in the system, therefore opening pipes. I need to make sure I get the signals when a system tool exits unexpectedly. Alberto On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 22:45 -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > Why are you trying to avoid SIGPIPE, anyway? It's easy to ignore, and > a global state would make it possible to determine what socket you > were writing on (if you needed that). > > -Kyle H > > On 2/12/06, Gayathri Sundar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably you can call the following > > > > iRet = SSL_get_shutdown(pSSL); > > if(iRet >= 0) SSL_shutdown(pSSL); > > > > This is because, SSL_shutdown writes data on the wire, > > i.e the closure alerts..and if a FIN was received meanwhile, > > you will catch a SIGPIPE..this piece of code, actually > > saves me from this.. > > > > Thanks > > --G3 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alberto Alonso > > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:08 PM > > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > > Subject: SSL_shutdown and SIGPIPE > > > > > > I am getting SIGPIPE signals under Linux when calling > > on SSL_shutdown and the remote is gone. > > > > Basically, the remote end terminates the connection abruptly, > > then the server finishes doing whatever is doing and issues > > a SSL_shutdown on the ssl structure that used to handle the > > connection. This generates a SIGPIPE on the server. > > > > Is there anything I should be checking for before calling > > SSL_shutdown to make sure the connection is still OK? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alberto > > -- > > Alberto Alonso Global Gate Systems LLC. > > (512) 351-7233 http://www.ggsys.net > > Hardware, consulting, sysadmin, monitoring and remote backups > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
