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TCP programming connect problem

Post by James Tal » Fri, 24 Jun 1994 23:14:27



I am having a problem with a client-server app that I am developing.  The
problem is that I have a TCP connection between the two of them and the
program gets into a state that the server is blocked trying to write to the
client and the client turns off his computer.  As a consequence, the server
sits on the write() system call forever.  I want to know why the server is
not notified with an error return that the client has broken the connection.

I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone can give me.

(P.S. I have already tried SO_KEEPALIVE to no avail)

                                                James

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Using C to write my application and this is my problem.

Having a problem when the remote PC, isn't turned on, or network cable is
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It appears to be the TCP_KEEPALIVE timer defaults to some ugly time of 2
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I can't change this, because my application is running on someone else Unix
system and this is not an option to change.

My question is, what can I do for a work around to get out of the connect
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Since, I'm using C, would like to see an example if possible or direct me to
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BTW: my app works well as long as the PC is up and running and is on the
network. I can detect then when the server is up or down. It just, that I
can't with the PC being disconnected from the network.

Thanks for your help.
-jt

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