On 8/16/06, Davi Arnaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The only portable way to "detect" a broken connection is using SO_KEEPALIVE or to write/read "ping" data through the socket -- which is what keepalive does.
How would SO_KEEPALIVE help? The other end is deliberately closing the connection and we need to know that. Would a non-blocking read() followed by a poll()/select() be useful? We'd still get a 0 back from read() - but if it was the EOF, would the state of the socket change to be in the 'exceptional' state then if we repoll? -- justin
