Ignore SIGPIPE signals to simplify error handling.

This is an attempt to avoid server-side crashes/exits when the
client abruptly closes its control connection, as found in some
testing for #549.

Fixes #550.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 95d5a90..d5bf6ff 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * iperf, Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, The Regents of the University of
+ * iperf, Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, The Regents of the University of
  * California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject
  * to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of
  * Energy).  All rights reserved.
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ run(struct iperf_test *test)
     if (setjmp(sigend_jmp_buf))
 	iperf_got_sigend(test);
 
+    /* Ignore SIGPIPE to simplify error handling */
+    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+
     switch (test->role) {
         case 's':
 	    if (test->daemon) {
@@ -169,6 +172,7 @@ run(struct iperf_test *test)
     }
 
     iperf_catch_sigend(SIG_DFL);
+    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);
 
     return 0;
 }