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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:25:50 -0400
To: "Miguelanxo Otero" <miguelanxotero AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: write() on closed socket crashes program instead of
  reporting error
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At 09:44 AM 10/24/2001, Miguelanxo Otero wrote:
>Ok, this time i'll try to be very concise.
>
>Im porting a linux application (a web server). The web server is able to manage different connections at a time (max 10 connections).
>
>The problem is this... Imagine tou are downloading a page & in the middle of the download you kill (or press the stop button in) the web browser (client application). Then, if my web server tries to write() in the (closed | killed) socket, instead of reporting an error, the program crashes.
>
>If i run my web server in the bash console of cygwin, it reports an "broken pipe" error after crashing.
>
>If I run the web server in a ms-dos console, it dies silently.
>
>the code is like this:
>
>if ((count=write(client_socket,requested_web_page_buffer,length))==-1) {
>perror("write");
>free_stuff_of_this_connection();
>}
>
>In linux, if write fails, perror reports the error and the program frees connection & keeps running ok.
>
>In windows (cygwin) if write fails, perror doesn't report anything & program crashes.
>
>Im using cygwin1.dll version 1.3.2.


Have you tried 1.3.3 or a snapshot?  It would be quite helpful to know
if you have.  Sorry if I missed part of some previous thread here which
indicates that you have done this already.



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