Removed unnecessary calls to signal() to ignore SIGPIPE.  SIGPIPE is ignored
in initsigs() inside pythonrun.c.
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 8e1bc19..a9a7b00 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -2515,11 +2515,6 @@
 		return -1;
 	}
 	init_sockobject(s, fd, family, type, proto);
-	/* From now on, ignore SIGPIPE and let the error checking
-	   do the work. */
-#ifdef SIGPIPE
-	(void) signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
-#endif
 
 	return 0;
 
@@ -3038,9 +3033,6 @@
 	/* Create a pair of socket fds */
 	if (socketpair(family, type, proto, sv) < 0)
 		return set_error();
-#ifdef SIGPIPE
-	(void) signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
-#endif
 	s0 = new_sockobject(sv[0], family, type, proto);
 	if (s0 == NULL)
 		goto finally;
@@ -3091,11 +3083,6 @@
 	if (fd < 0)
 		return set_error();
 	s = new_sockobject(fd, family, type, proto);
-	/* From now on, ignore SIGPIPE and let the error checking
-	   do the work. */
-#ifdef SIGPIPE
-	(void) signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
-#endif
 	return (PyObject *) s;
 }