From 785fd5613b60801c14774ee5747ea16cbcdb8489 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:26:53 -0500
Subject: Document SIGPIPE when printing to closed socket

---
 pod/perlfunc.pod | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'pod')

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 53c318fdb6..bacf296299 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4197,6 +4197,9 @@ you will have to use a block returning the filehandle value instead:
     print { $files[$i] } "stuff\n";
     print { $OK ? STDOUT : STDERR } "stuff\n";
 
+Printing to a closed pipe or socket will generate a SIGPIPE signal.  See
+L<perlipc> for more on signal handling.
+
 =item printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST
 X<printf>
 
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