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From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: TCP problems
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:40:36 +0100
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"Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> If you're just talking about system-wide closes then you could
use
> the technique currently employed in pipe.cc where events are
used
> as flags indicating when the "other side" of a pipe is closed.

That's a nice trick: each time the write-end of the pipe is
duplicated so is the handle to a named event created when the pipe
was created; so, if you try and fail to open the event, all
instances of the write-end have been closed.  Very simple and it
survives applications being killed via the task manager too.

I'll see if I can use that trick to simplify the UNIX domain
socket patch I submitted.  I can't immediately see how, since I
want the code to block until something in particular happens, but
it would simplify the detection of the last close.

Thanks,

// Conrad

p.s. I like the name of the event too: "stupid_pipe" ;-)