recv and errno during a connection reset/closed by peer

[Brian Ford]

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
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