Monday, October 22, 2018

TCP/IP, Sockets, and SIGPIPE - Security Boulevard


TCP/IP, Sockets, and SIGPIPE
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There is a spectre haunting the Internet — the spectre of SIGPIPE errors. It's a bug in the original design of Unix networking from 1981 that is perpetuated by college textbooks, which teach students to ignore it. As a consequence, sometimes software ...