Re: [Arianne-general] behaviour of Socket when client disconnects

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Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> My intent was to find out if a client has disconnected. On my Debian GNU/Linux
> machine, the server-side checks for new data, sees that some data is waiting on
> a socket but the size of the transmitted data is zero.
> Since this behaviour is not documented in SDL, I wonder how other OSs behave
> and if this behaviour can be used to detect that the client has disconnected.
> In short: disconnected = zero data-size for all OSs ?

Yes, I think that something similar happen to me on Windows.
But only happens when you are waiting for data and the connection
broken.( at least
I think so )

We could simply skip all the messages with size = 0.
What do you think?
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