On Wednesday 15 August 2007 12:37, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Jeff Weber wrote: > > However, if I: > > > > b) > > enable TCP keepalive on a server, > > lower the default keepalive parameters, > > establish a connection from a client, > > physically disconnect the server network, > > periodically send data to the disconnected client socket <-- NEW > > monitor client socket read status with select() > > > > the select() is not able to see the client socket is dead. > > It might help if you describe exactly what you mean by "periodically send > data to the disconnected client socket". Do you mean periodically queue > more data in the server process? Yes, another thread of the server writes to the socket, which is associated with the physically disconnected client. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html