diff --git a/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.c b/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.c
index d754c12..55be75c 100644
--- a/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.c
+++ b/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.c
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ int initializePlatformSockets(void) {
 #if defined(LC_WINDOWS) || defined(LC_WINDOWS_PHONE)
 	WSADATA data;
 	return WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 0), &data);
+#elif defined(LC_POSIX)
+    // Disable SIGPIPE signals to avoid us getting
+    // killed when a socket gets an EPIPE error
+    struct sigaction sa;
+    sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
+    sa.sa_flags = 0;
+    if (sigaction(SIGPIPE, &sa, 0) == -1) {
+        perror("sigaction");
+        return -1;
+    }
+    return 0;
 #else
 	return 0;
 #endif
diff --git a/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.h b/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.h
index 40dbd5c..f101872 100644
--- a/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.h
+++ b/limelight-common/PlatformSockets.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ typedef int SOCK_RET;
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+
 #define LastSocketError() errno
 #define SetLastSocketError(x) errno = x
 #define INVALID_SOCKET -1