Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:21 -0600 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Peter A. Castro" cc: Peter Stephens , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: recv and errno during a connection reset/closed by peer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Mar 2005 16:37:27.0435 (UTC) FILETIME=[97EC9DB0:01C5347D] On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Peter A. Castro wrote: > As someone who's seen this behaviour on several platforms, it can happen. > I've had to deal with this little annoyance in other products by having a > retry counter loop. So many consecutive recv()s of 0 length constitues a > closed connection. Something like this might work here as well? If you are doing a normal blocking recv without MSG_PEEK, any return of 0 should mean a closed connection AFAIK. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/