diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 538aaf3c2..8d8c59ff0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ What is KeyDB?
 
 KeyDB is a high performance fork of Redis with a focus on multithreading, memory efficiency, and high throughput.  In addition to multithreading, KeyDB also has features only available in Redis Enterprise such as [Active Replication](https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB/wiki/Active-Replication), [FLASH storage](https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB/wiki/FLASH-Storage) support, and some not available at all such as direct backup to AWS S3. 
 
-KeyDB maintains full compatibility with the Redis protocol, modules, and scripts.  This includes the atomicity gurantees for scripts and transactions.  Because KeyDB keeps in sync with Redis development KeyDB is a superset of Redis functionality, making KeyDB a drop in replacement for existing Redis deployments.
+KeyDB maintains full compatibility with the Redis protocol, modules, and scripts.  This includes the atomicity guarantees for scripts and transactions.  Because KeyDB keeps in sync with Redis development KeyDB is a superset of Redis functionality, making KeyDB a drop in replacement for existing Redis deployments.
 
 On the same hardware KeyDB can perform twice as many queries per second as Redis, with 60% lower latency. Active-Replication simplifies hot-spare failover allowing you to easily distribute writes over replicas and use simple TCP based load balancing/failover. KeyDB's higher performance allows you to do more on less hardware which reduces operation costs and complexity.
 
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 6966f8ede..4167fd79d 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -74,9 +74,11 @@ endif
 # To get ARM stack traces if Redis crashes we need a special C flag.
 ifneq (,$(filter aarch64 armv,$(uname_M)))
         CFLAGS+=-funwind-tables
+	CXXFLAGS+=-funwind-tables
 else
 ifneq (,$(findstring armv,$(uname_M)))
         CFLAGS+=-funwind-tables
+	CXXFLAGS+=-funwind-tables
 endif
 endif
 
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@ endif
 -include .make-settings
 
 FINAL_CFLAGS=$(STD) $(WARN) $(OPT) $(DEBUG) $(CFLAGS) $(REDIS_CFLAGS)
-FINAL_CXXFLAGS=$(CXX_STD) $(WARN) $(OPT) $(DEBUG) $(CFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(REDIS_CFLAGS)
+FINAL_CXXFLAGS=$(CXX_STD) $(WARN) $(OPT) $(DEBUG) $(CXXFLAGS) $(REDIS_CFLAGS)
 FINAL_LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) $(REDIS_LDFLAGS) $(DEBUG)
 FINAL_LIBS=-lm -lz -latomic
 DEBUG=-g -ggdb
@@ -110,13 +112,15 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS)
 	# SunOS
         ifneq ($(@@),32bit)
 		CFLAGS+= -m64
+		CXXFLAGS+= -m64
 		LDFLAGS+= -m64
 	endif
 	DEBUG=-g
 	DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
-	export CFLAGS LDFLAGS DEBUG DEBUG_FLAGS
+	export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS DEBUG DEBUG_FLAGS
 	INSTALL=cp -pf
 	FINAL_CFLAGS+= -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_XPG6
+	FINAL_CXXFLAGS+= -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_XPG6
 	FINAL_LIBS+= -ldl -lnsl -lsocket -lresolv -lpthread -lrt
 else
 ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),OpenBSD)
 	FINAL_LIBS+= -lpthread
 	ifeq ($(USE_BACKTRACE),yes)
 	    FINAL_CFLAGS+= -DUSE_BACKTRACE -I/usr/local/include
+	    FINAL_CXXFLAGS+= -DUSE_BACKTRACE -I/usr/local/include
 	    FINAL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib
 	    FINAL_LIBS+= -lexecinfo
     	endif
@@ -150,6 +155,7 @@ else
 	FINAL_LDFLAGS+= -rdynamic
 	FINAL_LIBS+=-ldl -pthread -lrt -luuid
 	FINAL_CFLAGS += -DMOTD
+	FINAL_CXXFLAGS += -DMOTD
 endif
 endif
 endif
@@ -236,10 +242,13 @@ persist-settings: distclean
 	echo OPT=$(OPT) >> .make-settings
 	echo MALLOC=$(MALLOC) >> .make-settings
 	echo CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) >> .make-settings
+	echo CXXFLAGS=$(CXXFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	echo LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	echo REDIS_CFLAGS=$(REDIS_CFLAGS) >> .make-settings
+	echo REDIS_CXXFLAGS=$(REDIS_CXXFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	echo REDIS_LDFLAGS=$(REDIS_LDFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	echo PREV_FINAL_CFLAGS=$(FINAL_CFLAGS) >> .make-settings
+	echo PREV_FINAL_CXXFLAGS=$(FINAL_CXXFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	echo PREV_FINAL_LDFLAGS=$(FINAL_LDFLAGS) >> .make-settings
 	-(cd modules && $(MAKE))
 	-(cd ../deps && $(MAKE) $(DEPENDENCY_TARGETS))
@@ -250,6 +259,8 @@ persist-settings: distclean
 # Clean everything, persist settings and build dependencies if anything changed
 ifneq ($(strip $(PREV_FINAL_CFLAGS)), $(strip $(FINAL_CFLAGS)))
 .make-prerequisites: persist-settings
+else ifneq ($(strip $(PREV_FINAL_CXXFLAGS)), $(strip $(FINAL_CXXFLAGS)))
+.make-prerequisites: persist-settings
 else ifneq ($(strip $(PREV_FINAL_LDFLAGS)), $(strip $(FINAL_LDFLAGS)))
 .make-prerequisites: persist-settings
 else
@@ -337,7 +348,7 @@ bench: $(REDIS_BENCHMARK_NAME)
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "WARNING: if it fails under Linux you probably need to install libc6-dev-i386"
 	@echo ""
-	$(MAKE) CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"
+	$(MAKE) CXXFLAGS="-m32" CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"
 
 gcov:
 	$(MAKE) REDIS_CFLAGS="-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -DCOVERAGE_TEST" REDIS_LDFLAGS="-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
diff --git a/src/aof.cpp b/src/aof.cpp
index 73e5b1c65..733d0dc43 100644
--- a/src/aof.cpp
+++ b/src/aof.cpp
@@ -165,7 +165,10 @@ void aofRewriteBufferAppend(unsigned char *s, unsigned long len) {
 
     /* Install a file event to send data to the rewrite child if there is
      * not one already. */
-    aeCreateRemoteFileEvent(g_pserver->rgthreadvar[IDX_EVENT_LOOP_MAIN].el, g_pserver->aof_pipe_write_data_to_child, AE_WRITABLE, aofChildWriteDiffData, NULL, FALSE);
+    aePostFunction(g_pserver->rgthreadvar[IDX_EVENT_LOOP_MAIN].el, []{
+        if (g_pserver->aof_pipe_write_data_to_child >= 0)
+            aeCreateFileEvent(g_pserver->rgthreadvar[IDX_EVENT_LOOP_MAIN].el, g_pserver->aof_pipe_write_data_to_child, AE_WRITABLE, aofChildWriteDiffData, NULL);
+    });
 }
 
 /* Write the buffer (possibly composed of multiple blocks) into the specified
@@ -1567,6 +1570,7 @@ void aofClosePipes(void) {
         aeDeleteFileEventAsync(serverTL->el,fdAofWritePipe,AE_WRITABLE);
         close(fdAofWritePipe);
     });
+    g_pserver->aof_pipe_write_data_to_child = -1;
     
     close(g_pserver->aof_pipe_read_data_from_parent);
     close(g_pserver->aof_pipe_write_ack_to_parent);
diff --git a/src/redis-cli.c b/src/redis-cli.c
index ea920569d..7a1f06341 100644
--- a/src/redis-cli.c
+++ b/src/redis-cli.c
@@ -6594,6 +6594,8 @@ static char *fetchMOTDFromCache()
 static void setMOTDCache(const char *sz)
 {
     FILE *pf = fopen(szMotdCachePath(), "wb");
+    if (pf == NULL)
+        return;
     size_t celem = fwrite(sz, strlen(sz), 1, pf);
     (void)celem;    // best effort
     fclose(pf);