Re: [gnet] G_IO_Condition on a iochannel for a socket

[Aschwin van der Woude <aschwin van der woude netmill fi>]

Ah, thanks!!
Perhaps you could include an explanaition about this in the documents.
I can also make this change for you if you like, and send in a doc-patch.

Thanks a lot,

Aschwin


Andrew J Lanoix wrote:

> What you describe is the correct behavior. When a client disconnects you
> get a G_IO_IN and a read of 0. The G_IO_IN is used to signal that your
> received something, and the read of 0 is the standard way sockets say the
> other end closed the connection. Take a look at the gnet's  echoserver &
> echoclient --async examples.
>
> Andy
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It is not clear to me if this question belongs on this list or on the
> > glib-list, so please forgive and correct me if this questions belongs to
> > the glib-list.
> >
> > We are not members of this mailinglist, so please cc: the reply to us.
> >
> > I am participating in a small game-project. For this project we build a
> > client/server, decided to use gnet and glib, and use TCP/IP as a network
> > protocol.
> >
> > Everything works fine, accepting connections, receiving data and so forth.
> > We use g_io_add_watch() to received socket/iochannel conditions.
> >
> > But we noticed when the client-side hangs up the connection (tested with
> > telnet), a condition G_IO_IN is issued on the server.
> > There is no data to be received from the stream, so currently we used
> > this condition and this last fact to assume the otherside of the
> > connection has hung up. This solution seems to work fine for our
> > test-cases, but I doubt it is the correct solution.
> >
> > We initially expected a G_IO_HUP condition to be received when the
> > otherside of the connection is closed.
> >
> > We currently use the following versions :
> >
> > glib version:    1.2.10-ximian.2
> > gnet version:    1.0.4-ximian.2
> >
> > Could you shed some light on this curiosity?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aschwin
> >
> > --
> >
> >   If I have been able to see further,
> >   it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
> >
> >                                    Sir Isaac Newton
> >
> >
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