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From: pawel@cs.UAlberta.CA (Pawel Gburzynski)
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Subject: Re: Server death detection?
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.184935.15518@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 18 Oct 90 18:49:35 GMT
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From article <MCDANIEL.90Oct18111427@dolphin.adi.com>, by mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel):
> 
> select is no help at all: the death of the other end of the connection
> is not perceived as an exception.
> 
Actually it is. When a socket is closed, it appears as "ready to read" on
the other side (with EOF).

                                   Pawel Gburzynski.