On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:55:44AM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > POLLERR would only be set for an RST and "exceptional conditions"; the > same applies to select()+the exceptfds array AFAIK. > > There is some inconsistency with handling FIN and sockets across > platforms: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html but yes > you'd generally expect POLLIN for "you can read EOF".
Back to our original question: how can we portably detect that the socket is still alive? We can't do a non-blocking read() either... -- justin
