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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:12:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Robert van Engelen <engelen@cs.fsu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac OS X BSD SO_NOSIGPIPE bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212041211010.26728-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <7BF5285B-07A1-11D7-8EA1-000393C3075E@cs.fsu.edu>

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Robert van Engelen wrote:

Firstly, or course, a FreeBSD list is an odd place to ask a macOS
question.. But, assuming that there might be an inherritted bug from
FreeBSD, a sample test program would be a good start.



> I recently ran into a nasty problem with BSD-based Mac OS X Darwin and 
> sockets with SO_NOSIGPIPE and SO_KEEPALIVE both enabled (setsockopt). 
> The problem is with bind(), accept() followed by multiple send() and 
> recv() calls. Eventually, the send() and/or recv() will stall for 
> several minutes, even though data is available. Monitoring the TCP/IP 
> traffic I found that the send() and/or recv() loops while attempting to 
> get more data or send data in 5 second intervals. Eventually this 
> succeeds after several minutes delay. The problem does not occur when I 
> use my own SIGPIPE signal handler, nor does it occur on Linux or other 
> UNIX platforms. I also removed the handler and all works fine in that 
> case as well. So even when the connections are not prematurely 
> terminated, the SO_NOSIGPIPE option causes this problem. Does anyone 
> have an idea? Has this behavior been observed before? Is this normal 
> behavior?
> 
> - Dr. Robert van Engelen, Florida State University
> 
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