Re: [lwip-users] Detection remote closed TCP connection

[Jonathan Larmour]

Kieran Mansley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>> Yes, if the connection is closed remotely you will read 0 bytes (as opposed
>> to no data available when you get the EWOULDBLOCK error). If you write to
>> it when closed you will get an error.
> 
> Although if the remote end has closed gracefully, using a FIN rather
> than a RST, you'll get no error when writing to the socket as the
> connection is still open in that direction.

Sorry, yes true.

Jifl
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