On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Mark Ellzey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:28:25PM +0000, Alexander Kolbasov wrote: >> On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mark Ellzey wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:10:04AM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: >>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Sashan Govender <sash...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> 1) I don't see any notion of event notification on FD exception - e.g. >>>>>> socket close. >>>>>> There are some words for buffer events, but nothing for regular file >>>>>> descriptor based callbacks. So what is a good way to get a callback >>>>>> when specific >>>>>> FD is closed/disconnected? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If the fd is a socket and the peer closes then you'll get a read callback. >>>>> When you read from the fd 'read' will return 0 indicating that the peer >>>>> closed. >>>>> >>>> >>>> But if the peer die without closing the socket, you will never get a read >>>> event. In this case you will fail when writing to the socket. >>>> >>>> You can simulate this by disconnecting the peer from the network. >>> >>> Writing to the socket, in most cases, not something you want to do just >>> to determine if the socket is alive. >>> >>> If a peer is disconnected, e.g., it shuts down, the OS *should* >>> eventually time-out the session which will result in your eventcb being >>> executed. >>> >>> Another option is to set your own read timeout on the socket. >> >> Does it mean that peer close is not triggering EV_READ callback and the user >> should >> periodically timeout and attempt reads and check for read errors? >> > > Depends on what you mean by peer-closed. I think in this thread we were > speaking about the situation where a client never sends a RST/FIN, i.e., > the client host is shut down during transmission. > > If you set a read timeout via libevent or the OS times the connection > out, the event callback, not the read callback is executed.
Ok, let me clarify. - If the peer does regular close and sends RST/FIN, we will get EV_READ event and actual read() will return -1 - If the peer just terminates and we only specify EV_READ, we would get nothing. - If the peer just terminates and we specify EV_READ | EV_TIMEOUT and specify a timeout, we will get a callback with EV_TIMEOUT set. Is this correct? - Alex*********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.