Re: LuaSocket - how can a tcp client detect a closed connection?

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:40:57AM +1100, David Burgess wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> >so, if the server closes the stream you can still send data; and if it 
> >calls
> >read(), will get it.  only when the second part (the client, in your case)
> >calls close() too, is the whole stream finished.
> 
> Not so on Windows

Or on unix. We must use shutdown() to do a half-close, which is what
well behaved clients and servers do.

close() does a full-close, shuts the read and write side. Same on
windows, AFAIK:

  http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/newbie.html

  2.10

Which doesn't mean everybody does it correctly!

Sam