Hi,
-- Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> wrote:
> The tcp hackers have provided an api for clients to set these values per
> socket (setsockopt with TCP_KEEPIDLE and similar (in linux at least)).
you can use SO_KEEPALIVE:
[...] SO_KEEPALIVE enables the periodic transmission of messages on a connected socket. Should the connected party
failto respond to these messages, the connection is con- sidered broken and processes using the socket are notified
viaa SIGPIPE signal when attempting to send data.
For me it seems to be a good idea to support this. For the applications
(server, client) it is transparent, but notices a cutted or broken network
connection faster then before...
But even with this you only realise that the connection is gone when sending
something, AFAIK.
Ciao Alvar
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