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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:21 -0600
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
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Subject: RE: recv and errno during a connection reset/closed by peer
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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.

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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