I don't want to start arguing over this, but I read that section in perlipc, and it dosn't say that pipes are created with socketpair. It says that socketpair is preferred for bidirectional communication , over 2 pipe pairs. The name, "pipe2" may be misleading. 
....snip......
 # pipe1 - bidirectional communication using two pipe pairs
           #         designed for the socketpair-challenged

...snip.......

 But you don't actually have to make two pipe calls.  If you have the 
+socketpair() system call, it will do this all for you.
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 # pipe2 - bidirectional communication using socketpair
 #   "the best ones always go both ways"

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So you are not creating a pipe with socketpair, that is why I brought it up in my original post, about you relating a SIG{PIPE} to the socketpair. I was thinking that somewhere in your program, you had a pipe ( liked a piped open ) which prints to the socket.

It really would be good if you could show a snippet of code which gives your error. Does the code in perlipc (pipe2), showing how to use a socketpair, work OK for you? It works OK for me. How does your code differ from it?

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In reply to Re^3: SIG{'PIPE'} and pipe timeout by zentara
in thread SIG{'PIPE'} and pipe timeout by Marcello

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