On Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:48:42 PM UTC+5:30, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote: > > 2014-04-24 12:02 GMT+02:00 Atul <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > > I believe we also always get nread < 0 in read callback (read_cb) > whenever > > client disconnects (crash or lost Internet) ? > > > > Can we not reply on that? > > That is not true. Internet TCP connections are not a "physical wire". > If you crash or loose Internet connection then your computer WONT send > a TCP FIN or TCP RESET to the server so the server WONT realize of > your disconnection (until it tries to write, but what about if the > server does NEVER attempt to write you? it would keep your ghost > connection forever and ever!). >
> > -- > Iñaki Baz Castillo > <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Well, when I tried on local client/server scenario, whenever I *killed*client, I always get notification via read_cb (with nread <0) In this case also there is no chance my client sent any signal to server. Made me think its reliable way to close handle in read_cb only. Not sure really why the same could not be not true for Internet connections. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "libuv" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/libuv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
