Re: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed?

in reply to IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed?

The only practical way that I have ever found to determine whether a client has crashed is to oblige the protocol between the two to periodically send a “heartbeat” message if there is nothing else to be sent during some mutually agreed-upon interval. The host should record the latest timestamp as each socket sends a message, or just a boolean flag, and use a periodic timer, say about half-again as long as the heartbeat, to check for absence of response within that time. Upon which the host might presume that the client is dead. You see, you really can’t be 100% sure, AFAIK, that all of the intermediates between here-and-there are still in good working order. Maybe the host knows that the socket has been closed or that communication has failed, or maybe it doesn’t. But if a bottle washes up on shore, even if it’s empty, you know the sender is still out there.

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Re^2: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 18, 2012 at 20:13 UTC
More of your patented, utter ribald tosh... (Don't be encouraged by the upvote; that was me by accident.) With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP Neil Armstrong	[reply]
Re^3: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed? by ysth (Canon) on Oct 21, 2012 at 03:51 UTC
Ribald?!? -- A math joke: r = \| \|csc(θ)\|+\|sec(θ)\|-\|\|csc(θ)\|-\|sec(θ)\|\| \|	[reply]
Re^4: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 21, 2012 at 05:04 UTC
As in the "sexing up" of the September dossier. Take a basic, vaguely related, even more vaguely true, notion, and sex it up until it reads to the uninformed, like it says something important. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP Neil Armstrong	[reply]
Re^5: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed? by ysth (Canon) on Oct 21, 2012 at 19:29 UTC
Re^6: IO::Select and correct way to detect client crashed? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 21, 2012 at 20:36 UTC

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