On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Ken Feng <kfmf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Within libevent, of course.  As a point of reference, let's say we
> start up the TCP Echo server that is in Nick's book here:
> http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/Ref8_listener.html<http://www.wangafu.net/%7Enickm/libevent-book/Ref8_listener.html>
>
> I could handle a normal client shutdown by sending a special shutdown
> sequence from client to server, but what about connection lost?  What
> is the best way for the server to detect this state?  Can I do it
> without pinging the client?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Ken
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Are you using buffer events?  If so, in your errorcb look for BEV_EVENT_EOF,
BEV_EVENT_ERROR, and BEV_EVENT_TIMEOUT.  Free the context pointer and call
bufferevent_free().

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