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Subject: Re: Inadequate documentation: sockets
To: alex@baretta.com (Alessandro Baretta)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:34:08 +0000 (GMT)
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> =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
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