How to Handle a Broken Pipe (SIGPIPE) in UVW? about uvw HOT 2 CLOSED

Thank you for your response and guidance. Following your suggestion, I've investigated this further and I believe I've identified the solution based on the capabilities of libuv.

The issue seems to stem from a signal known as SIGPIPE, which is sent to a process when it attempts to write to a pipe without a reader. When this signal is not handled, the process gets terminated with a status code 141 indicating a broken pipe. This is exactly the situation I am experiencing when the client abruptly disconnects.

After doing some research, I came across these relevant resources:

• Libev Documentation that details the issue with SIGPIPE and how it can be addressed.
• libuv Documentation further explains how libuv handles this internally.

Based on these sources, the solution is to ignore the SIGPIPE signal, allowing libuv to handle the situation and prevent the application from terminating unexpectedly. This can be done using the signal() function like so:

signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);

By adding this line of code, any SIGPIPE signals that occur are simply ignored, and libuv is allowed to manage the situation as it was designed to. This appears to have resolved the issue on my end.

I hope this solution can be of help to other developers who might encounter a similar issue. Let me know if there's anything else that should be addressed or explained further.

from uvw.

Well, first of all, is it possible in libuv? If yes, how does it work?
uvw adds nothing on top of libuv, it only wraps the underlying library.
Therefore, the first thing to understand is if it works and how it works with libuv.
Then we can map your findings to uvw. 🙂

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