* Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-21 16:59]: > do I need to retry writev() on a nonblocking Unix-domain SOCK_STREAM > socket or will it always write out the exact number of bytes I wanted?
it will tell you wether it wrote out both. on non-blocking sockets you have to account for partial reads. > And another question: is it possible to find out that such a socket has > been disconnected before I call writev() on it (so that I reconnect it first)? > Or will I have to check for EPIPE? (too bad - because then I won't know > how many bytes have been transmitted successfully) writev() returning 0 means connection closed. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
