Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> If you use a select on the appropriate file handle in the exceptions set
> then you should notice a close.


That might be true on some implementations, but the BSD documentation says
"The only exceptional condition detectable is out-of-band data received on
a socket." However poll(2) is slightly more flexible in this area, and its
POLLHUP flag does what we want.

Tony.
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