Re: network question

[Gert Scholten <gs2 dds nl>]

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 Fabien.Letouzey@lifl.fr wrote:
:> Hello, I had a question.
:> 
:> I'm programming a network application, which uses gtk_input_add to assing
:> a function to the `read'ability of a INET stream.
:> The problem comes here: How do I detect if the other side has closed the
:> connection? I can't just read(),and check for it to return 0, because
:> read() will wait for data. And my function isn't called if there isn't any
:> data to read (which is logical, the connection was closed)
:> 
:> How do I solve this problem ???
:> 
:> Gert
:> 
:
:I think you're wrong, read() won't wait for any data since
:EOF was reached. Actually I'm already using that in a GTK
:telnet client :) At least try it, even if I'm mistaken.

Well you see, I would like a functions ala `gtk_input_is_still_open'...
I can't do that with read(), because is may wait _really_ long if the socket
isn't open :(

Gert

:Xann.