On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Jogeshwar Karthik Akundi wrote:

> Client uses CURL to connect to server using Connect_Only option.
> While the connection is running, if network cable is removed, the disconnect
> is not being detected.
> I use select() to verify readibility/writability on the socket and use
> curl_easy_read/write to receive/send data.
> when using the socket descriptor in read/write sets, select doesn't return
> FD_ISSET. it only times out.

...

> so I tried to skip select and force sending data to CURL if buffers are
> available. Then curl_easy_send returns success. It is able to send packets
> of 20 bytes (verified only a few packets though) without errors, while I
> hold the network cable in my hand.

That sounds odd, but maybe you should consider having your heartbeat system
require a response within a certain time anyway?

> In the same case, we get an error immediately on windows. This issue is OSX
> specific (atleast for me here).

Perhaps it is, but I'm not aware of any such OSX peculiarities. What does (the
equivalent of) strace show?

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