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From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Internet stream socket question
Message-ID: <oY5POvy00VsnE0eksL@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 89 23:26:51 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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How can a connected socket determine when its peer has closed the connection?  I
prefer to detect a remote close without having the peer send a "goodbye" packet,
if possible.

Thanks in advance,

-Bob Glickstein (bobg@andrew.cmu.edu)