Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jasen Betts<jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
>> can't coerce a signal from the network stack? the linux socket(2)
>> manpage is full of promise (SIGPIPE, SIGURG, SIGIO)
> SIGIO on the other hand looks like exactly what we would need. I'm not
> sure if it can be set to fire a signal only when the connection is
> disconnected and not for other state changes but if so it would be
> interesting.
And the other question is how much of what you read in the Linux manpage
is portable to any other system...
regards, tom lane
