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Re: Avoiding SIGPIPE (was Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Avoiding SIGPIPE (was Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5)
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In response to Re: Avoiding SIGPIPE (was Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL  (Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>)
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Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:
> What about an option to skip the sigaction calls for apps that can 
> handle SIGPIPE?

If the app is ignoring SIGPIPE globally, then our calls will have no
effect anyway.  I don't see that this proposal adds any security.
        regards, tom lane

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