Re: [Chicken-users] Re: with-open-pipe to handle sigpipe

[Alan Post]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Lui Fungsin wrote:
> OK, so the problem is that sigpipe is not handled.
> 
> Does the following code look reasonable?
> 
> Specifically, I'm not sure if escaping with the continuation k is the
> proper way to gracefully handle the signal.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

If you set SIGPIPE to the chicken equivalent of SIG_IGN, any error
message writing to the pipe will be returned by write(2) instead,
which you could then handle in an exception handler on your primary
stack, instead of the signal stack.

-Alan
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