Re: detecting broken pipe

[Dan McMahill]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Dan McMahill <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So is there an easy way to detect when the pipe was terminated so I
> > can avoid crashing?
>
>
> You can set the SIGPIPE signal to avoid terminating on a broken pipe.
> Usually setting it to SIG_IGN is the cleanest, with that a write
> throws an EPIPE error.  (Read more in the libc manual.)
>
> As to actually detecting the termination, SIGCHLD might tell you as
> soon as the child dies (though you probably have to be careful not to
> interfere with the cleanups close-pipe will do).

I tried this:

(sigaction SIGPIPE SIG_IGN)

before

(set! pcb:pipe (open-output-pipe "pcb --listen"))

but when I exit out of pcb, I still get

ERROR: In procedure write_all:
ERROR: Broken pipe

For various reasons I prefer to do whatever magic needs doing to deal 
with this completely in scheme rather than in the c program which uses 
guile.

Thanks
-Dan