Re: sockets

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 22:43, Jason Greene wrote: > In the case of a socket you are selecting on has errored, the socket > will show up as readable. You then can perform a socket_read/recv, and > you should receive NULL (errored socket), then you can call > socket_last_error to receive the errno. > Unless I'm just a really bad coder and have no idea what I'm doing, this won't help. I tried using socket_last_error, but it returns the same error code whether the socket has no data waiting (remember this is a non-blocking socket) or if the socket has died. I can only tell if it is dead by writing to the socket. What I'd like to do is just find out if the socket is still alive.