Re: Our (real) problems

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dan Winship <danw ximian com> writes: 
> Why, is the "broken" signal tied to X? Can't you get the same thing for
> non-X stuff by just pinging the other side of the connection every now
> and then? If you get an EPIPE, it's dead. The remote server doesn't even
> need to ack the ping.
> 

We talked with Michael about this for a bit on Friday. It has some
assorted corner cases where you get hosed apparently.

Owen and I are supposed to be writing up what we talked about.

Havoc