On 29 January 2013 09:46, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > You can't use EOF on a read() to determine client life when the nature > of the client/server relationship is that clients are allowed to > shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR) as soon as they connect because they expect to > receive but never send any data. > > On the other hand, Alfred's suggestion of using poll(2) rather than > select(2) worked perfectly. Polling with an events mask of zero results > in it returning POLLHUP in revents if the client has closed the socket.
Just make sure that's portable.. :-) adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
