Re: General socket question: Would server knows the connection has been broken if client drop the connection without calling close()

Scott Klement wrote:
>> If I've a socket program that connected to a server and the program
>> ended abnormally without calling the close() to close the connection,
>> would the server knows that the connection has been broken and auto drop
>> the connection?
> How can the client drop the connection without calling close()?

To answer Scott's question ...

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SIGNOFF

To answer Lim's question ...

If the connection is dropped, the server should receive an error when it
tries to read, write, or select, because the socket would not longer be
valid.

david