How do I reconnect a disconnected socket?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-03-28, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is exactly what it means.
>>
>> >From the recv() man page:
>>
>> RETURN VALUE
>>        These  calls  return  the  number  of bytes received, or -1 if an error
>>        occurred.  The return value will be 0 when the peer  has performed  an
>>        orderly shutdown.
>>
>>   
> Mea cupla. :-)
>
> What about non-blocking sockets?

$ man recv
...
       If no messages are available at the socket, the receive
       calls wait for a message to arrive, unless the socket is
       non-blocking (see fcntl(2)), in which case the value -1
       is returned and the external variable errno set to
       EAGAIN.
...

-- 
Grant