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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Signal handling in server-client model
Message-ID: <27943:May516:01:3290@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 16:01:32 GMT
References: <38863@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <38863@brunix.UUCP> cs222056@cs.brown.edu (Muru Palaniappan) writes:
  [ client-server, TCP stream connection ]
> If the server or the client terminates unexpectedly (terminal interrupt
> etc.), how can the other sense this

It should receive an EOF---i.e., select() reports that the socket is
readable, and read() returns 0. Or you could dodge the issue until you
get a SIGPIPE.

---Dan