[Libvir] [PATCH] #2: Fix remote so that EPIPE errors are caught and reported

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:12:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Here we just fix the remote driver so that if the server goes down, the
>> process doesn't die on SIGPIPE.
> 
> This isn't thread safe. Changing signals with sigaction affects the
> entire process - so if you've got multiple threads running with
> multiple  remote connections open, you can get overlapping calls.
> Either we should just block sigpipe in virInitialize, or mandate
> that the application needs to block sigpipe itself. I'm not sure
> really what best course is - I'd probably lean towards saying it is
> the application's responsibility to deal with sig handlers.

Yes, you're right.  I'll change this so that instead it adds some 
supporting documentation for app writers.

Rich.

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