On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Sashan Govender <sash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > >> 1) I don't see any notion of event notification on FD exception - e.g. >> socket close. >> There are some words for buffer events, but nothing for regular file >> descriptor based callbacks. So what is a good way to get a callback >> when specific >> FD is closed/disconnected? >> > > If the fd is a socket and the peer closes then you'll get a read callback. > When you read from the fd 'read' will return 0 indicating that the peer > closed. > But if the peer die without closing the socket, you will never get a read event. In this case you will fail when writing to the socket. You can simulate this by disconnecting the peer from the network.
