Re: [Libevent-users] Ability to shutdown() socket with bufferevents?

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Corey Stup <coreystup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm needing the ability to shutdown(fd, 1) on a bufferevent managed
> socket [created with bufferevent_socket_new() and
> bufferevent_socket_connect()] as part of my protocol.   The flow of
> which looks somethign like this:
>
> Client opens connection to server
> Client sends data.
> Client closes the sending side of the socket to indicate EOF.
> Server sees EOF and closes the receive side of the socket
> Client
>
> For my first pass at this client, I'm using a bufferevent, but without
> an obvious way to send a EOF, it seems like I'm stuck.  It appears
> that at some point in the future, bufferevent_flush(..., EV_WRITE,
> BEV_FINISHED) may provide what I'm looking for, but its not yet
> implemented.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?

Right now there's no way to make a bufferevent call shutdown() itself,
but what if you have a write handler on the client bufferevent just
call shutdown() manually on the fd to send a FIN when the write buffer
is empty?  You can get the fd with bufferevent_get_fd().

yrs,
-- 
Nick
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