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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:22:23 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
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cc: Peter Stephens <ptfoof AT sbcglobal DOT net>
Subject: RE: recv and errno during a connection reset/closed by peer
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Brian Ford wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Peter Stephens wrote:
>
>> FYI - I tried setting the SO_LINGER and the SO_RCVTIMEO on Linux and on
>> Cygwin (see code below).  It makes sense to me that if the timeout has been
>> exceeded then the recv(..., MSG_PEEK) should do something.  On Cygwin it
>> doesn't do anything.
>
> I don't have time to check, but I imagine this is just a
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.

Yep, but I don't have time either, and this is a common enough problem
for other platforms. :(

>> On Linux it DOES time out, but it returns -1 and errno=EAGAIN.  This is an
>> interesting choice for errno
>
> Yes, it is the correct one.

I agree.

>> (perhaps ECONNABORTED, ESHUTDOWN, ECOMM,
>
> definately not.  Just because a recv timed out doesn't mean the connection
> is closed.
>
>> ETIME, ETIMEDOUT,
>
> Maybe.
>
>> EHOSTUNREACH, or ENOLINK would have been better choices),
>
> No as above.
>
>> The spec is kinda vague about the response to a MSG_PEEK when the connection
>> is lost, but I think that you could write a book on this subject with all
>> the possible combinations.
>
> Yup.  It's called "Unix Network Programming" by W. Richard Stevens ;-).

I believe I've got a copy of that book.  I'll have to dust it off and see
if it has any pronouncements in this area :)

> --
> Brian Ford

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