recv and errno during a connection reset/closed by peer

[Brian Ford]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Peter Stephens wrote:

> Brian
>
> Are you saying that there is no way to distinguish a dropped connection from
> a MSG_PEEK with no data to retrieve?

AFAIK, yes.  Why are you using this MSG_PEEK method?

Why not just do a poll and look for POLLHUP
(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html):

POLLHUP
    The device has been disconnected. This event and POLLOUT are
mutually-exclusive; a stream can never be writable if a hangup has
occurred. However, this event and POLLIN, POLLRDNORM, POLLRDBAND, or
POLLPRI are not mutually-exclusive. This flag is only valid in the revents
bitmask; it shall be ignored in the events member.

and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ;-).

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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