Re: Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:29:12 -0600

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Warren Young <wyml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A different fix is to exploit the real-time nature of video camera imagery: if your Python app goes more than a second without receiving an image frame, it can presume that the DOS box has disappeared again, and drop its conn.  By the time the DOS box reboots, TIME_WAIT may have expired, so the DOS box might reconnect without a problem.
>

Normally if you care about knowing if the other end of a connection is
gone you could enable keepalives on the socket, but I think you still
don't find out until you try to write to it.

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   Les Mikesell
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