Strange exit behaviour of GUI programs in Xfce on Logout

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Ah, yes, a famous Linux stupidity.  It seems that Linux is the only OS
> where the process gets a SIGPIPE when a connected socket is closed in a
> particular way.  If you want to avoid this, it's safe to do:
> signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
> in your app.

Linux generates a SIGPIPE when the application tries to write to a
closed socket.

> 	-brian

Benedikt