TCP connection between nodes, should select raise exception ?

[DannyBackx]

Hey,
I have pretty standard code based on BSD socket select.
Shouldn't select() catch the condition that a socket is disconnected and can't be written to ?
Error message changes after the first error, then keeps on going instead of getting an error condition raised.

https://sourceforge.net/p/espalarm/svnc ... /Peers.cpp

Danny

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I (19:31:58.131) Peers: CallPeerAsync: wrote {"weather":"GTWT02","name":"prototype","temp":4.400000095,"channel":1,"txid":124,"humidity":110,"battery-low":false,"seqno":69} to 
I (19:32:57.102) Temperature: GTWT02 (ch 1 txid 124) : 4.4°C, hum 110%
I (19:32:57.111) Peers: CallPeerAsync: wrote {"weather":"GTWT02","name":"prototype","temp":4.400000095,"channel":1,"txid":124,"humidity":110,"battery-low":false,"seqno":70} to 
I (19:33:56.192) Temperature: GTWT02 (ch 1 txid 124) : 4.3°C, hum 110%
E (19:33:56.201) Peers: CallPeerAsync: write to  failed, errno 113 Software caused connection abort, msg {"weather":"GTWT02","name":"prototype","temp":4.300000191,"channel":1,"txid":124,"humidity":110,"battery-low":false,"seqno":71}
I (19:34:55.182) Temperature: GTWT02 (ch 1 txid 124) : 4.3°C, hum 110%
E (19:34:55.191) Peers: CallPeerAsync: write to  failed, errno 128 Socket is not connected, msg {"weather":"GTWT02","name":"prototype","temp":4.300000191,"channel":1,"txid":124,"humidity":110,"battery-low":false,"seqno":72}
I (19:35:54.162) Temperature: GTWT02 (ch 1 txid 124) : 4.3°C, hum 110%
E (19:35:54.172) Peers: CallPeerAsync: write to  failed, errno 128 Socket is not connected, msg {"weather":"GTWT02","name":"prototype","temp":4.300000191,"channel":1,"txid":124,"humidity":110,"battery-low":false,"seqno":73}
I (19:36:53.152) Temperature: GTWT02 (ch 1 txid 124) : 4.3°C, hum 110%

[ESP_Sprite]

From what I recall, a socket that is closed is generally (in POSIX) being signalled by that socket becoming readable, but reading from it reads 0 bytes. Not sure why they didn't signal it as an error (possibly because a disconnected socket is something that might not be an error?) but that's the way it is.

[DannyBackx]

Well, the select() API was built for three things, one of them being exceptional conditions. And the other side in the communication (trying to read) does get such a signal.

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       Three  independent  sets  of file descriptors are watched.  The file descriptors listed in
       readfds will be watched to see if characters become available for reading (more precisely,
       to see if a read will not block; in particular, a file descriptor is also ready on end-of-
       file).  The file descriptors in writefds will be watched to see if space is available  for
       write  (though  a large write may still block).  The file descriptors in exceptfds will be
       watched for exceptional conditions.  (For examples of some exceptional conditions, see the
       discussion of POLLPRI in poll(2).)