---
title: brokenPipe
framework: system
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: system/errno/brokenpipe
---

# brokenPipe

Broken pipe.

## Declaration

```swift
static var brokenPipe: Errno { get }
```

## Mentioned in

Adopting Swift Error Constants

## Discussion

Discussion You attempted to write to a pipe, socket, or FIFO that doesn’t have a process reading its data. The corresponding C error is EPIPE.

## See Also

### Pipe Errors

- [illegalSeek](system/errno/illegalseek.md)