****** ABSOLUTELY ****** Get that book! I have that book myself and it is INVALUABLE!!!! Sockets are covered but so are a myraid other U*NX networking issues. Highly recommended for anyone writing U*NX network code. "Unix Network Programming Volume 1" by Stevens is solid gold.
Don. At 02:45 PM 12/16/98 -0500, Shaleh wrote: > >On 16-Dec-98 Lazar Fleysher wrote: >> HI Everyone, >> >> This is not a debian-specific question, but have no-one else to ask. I >> have been playing with sockets and can not seem to figure out how to use >> select() system call. I am trying to monitor wether a socket is ready for >> read and write. Read-monitor works ok, but wrtie --not. When the other >> side closes the connection select still reports that the socket is ready >> to write. Maybe i chould use some option in setsockopt or something. >> >> Also if some one could suggest a good reference on the sugject, I would be >> very grateful. >> > >Zoro, go to a local book store and buy W. Richard Stevens amazing book, Unix >network programming volume 1. Everything (I mean everything) you ever wanted >to know about sockets and network programming is in this book. It cost me $45 >US -- it is worth every cent. > >W. Richard Stevens is one of the top CS people -- up there with Knuth in my >book. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >