signal(SIGUSR1, sigusr);
/* WARNING: the following works on Linux and SysV, but not BSD! */
signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
+ /*
+ * Ignore SIGPIPE to avoid statd dying when peers close their
+ * TCP connection while we're trying to reply to them.
+ */
+ signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
/* initialize out_port */
statd_get_socket(out_port);