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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: "broken pipe" while reading/writing stream-based sockets
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:18:05 +0100
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"fabio de francesco" <fmdf@tiscali.it> writes:

> I usually test the server this way:
>
> $ ./tcp_client abc & ./tcp_client def & ./tcp_client xyz & ./tcp_client
> kill
>
> 1) Why does this server sometimes crash with "Broken Pipe"?

Just now I replaced your 'kill' above with 'lmn' and ran it 25 times
with no errors -- GCC 4.0.0 on Darwin 7.9.0

--S