Re: [Boost-users] asio error codes

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] asio error codes
From: Andreas Wehrmann (a.wehrmann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-05 02:03:07

On 10/05/2011 12:30 AM, Christopher Pisz wrote:
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> Well, my main concern is for reads and writes over tcp. Determining if my
> connection has been dropped or is unrecoverable, or if I should retry the read
> or write.
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> I see lots of 'no so self explanatory' error codes in the list of possibles.
> Such as,
> "Operation already in progress"
> "access_denied"
> "operation_aborted"
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> knowing when and why these occur dictates how I would handle them and whether
> I'd give up or retry.
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The usual way to find out whether a TCP connection is "broken"
or not is to facilitate a high level heartbeat mechanism.
By "high level" I mean the application layer.
At least that's how I do it :-)

Regards

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