Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > =46inally I'm left with my original problem: how am I supposed to
> > detect a close or a shutdown from the peer? Once again, I thank in
> > advance anyone who will lend me a hand by explaining this to me or
> > by addressing me to more adequate documentation.
>
> By an EOF on read or getting SIGPIPE/EPIPE on a write. You might want to pick
> up a book on the subject of network programming. There are some very nice ones
> around
As Alan already pointed out, a book on network programming can answer
these questions. I would recommend "UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1:
Networking APIs - Sockets and XTI" by W. Richard Stevens.
-- Khalid==================================================================== Khalid Aziz Linux Development Laboratory (970)898-9214 Hewlett-Packard khalid@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, CO - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Mar 07 2001 - 21:00:20 EST