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Re: curl_easy_recv and SIGPIPE

From: Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:01:05 +0000

On 27/10/2020 14:59, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library
> wrote:
>
>> I don't think there's anything to do here in libcurl,
>> beyond confirming (or denying!) that sigpipe_ignore is
>> /supposed/ to be a no-op if neither OpenSSL or Mbed TLS
>> is in use, a fact I discovered while looking into this
>> other issue.
>
> Yes it's on purpose, because it's not needed.
>
> libcurl is designed and meant to prevent signals to get
> sent (if asked to) and it should do that no matter which
> TLS backend it uses.
>
> OpenSSL and mbedTLS provide no way for us to prevent the
> signals from (potentially) being triggered so we must
> ignore them then. Other backends, like the Secure
> Transport one, allow us to not generate any SIGPIPEs, so
> we don't need to add ignore any signals there. It is much
> better to avoid the hassle of ignoring signals.
>
Okay, that's all fine then. Cheers.


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