Re: [libvirt-users] Handling connection closes in (older) Sys::Virt

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:08:45AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > You definitely need to figure out how to set the SIGPIPE handler to > 'ignore'. libvirt.so does not do this, because it is bad practice for > a library to set application global state like this. Not sure what > you tried, but I'd definitely expect this to work: > > $SIG{'PIPE'} = 'IGNORE'; I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but consider the following simple test script. Perhaps this is a Debian issue? #!/usr/bin/perl use Sys::Virt 0.9.2; my $vmm = Sys::Virt->new(address => "qemu+ssh://root\@SOME.HOST/system") or die; $SIG{'PIPE'} = 'IGNORE'; $| = 1; while (1) { eval { my $dummy = $vmm->get_node_info }; print "."; sleep 1; } Let's run it and go to SOME.HOST to kill the SSH process: