Re: [Libevent-users] What is the best way to detect a client socket disconnect?

[Ken Feng <kfmfe04@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

That was >exactly< it - if I remove my bufferevent_free( bev ) from
echo_event_cb() and call it when I intend to cut-off, the
echo_event_cb() gets invoked.

TYVM.

- Ken

On 11/25/10, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FWICT, your code isn't really simulating a cutoff: the file descriptor
> allocated for the client bufferevent at line 128 is never actually
> closed, since you neither close the socket nor free the bufferevent.
> (There's a bufferevent_free call in client_event_cb, but it will never
> get invoked, unless the server closes the connection or causes an
> error, I think.)  Thus, sockfd won't get automatically freed until the
> entire process exits: just exiting the client thread isn't enough to
> make anything happen to it.
>
> hth,
> --
> Nick
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