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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-01T21:37:25Z
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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