On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:53:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: [...] > > They should be equivalent - if the other end closes first, you'll get a > SIGPIPE, which by default will kill the process. If you want to keep > running you have to handle or ignore the signal. How about if I use MSG_NOSIGNAL in the flags argument? Thanks, Mike.