Why writing writing to unconnected socket sends SIGPIPE first?

Posted by Lukasz Lew on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Lukasz Lew
Published on 2009-10-18T03:05:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 9:45 UTC
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There are so many possible errors in POSIX environement. Why some of them (write to unconnected socket in particular) get special treatment in form of signals?

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