Try doing signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); somewhere in main(). recv() will just return -1 and you can get the reason from errno. Regards, Aaron On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Frank Samuelson wrote: > > I have a client program that performs a recv() > on a blocking socket. The program catches SIGPIPEs and exits. > > When the server computer crashes the client hangs on the recv() call. > It continues to do so even after the server computer comes back up. > When the server computer shuts down nicely, or the > server program is stopped or killed, > this is not a problem. > > Is this standard behavior? If yes, how to I > hack it so the recv() call times out? > > Perhaps I should mention that this connection typically > carries 6-7 MB/s on a 100Mb connection. No > data in >10 sec is an almost certain sign of a dead server. > > Thanks for any help > > -Frank > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
