Re: readv() on TCP socket returns 0

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hi
> 
> readv() returns 0 on EOF. If the file descriptor is a TCP socket, I
> guess that means the connexion was closed, but are there other
> situations where readv() can return 0 for a TCP socket?

I think that the only other cases are when the iovcnt is 0 or else
the sum of the iov_len is 0.  If it is returning 0 under other
circumstances, please file a bug!

Dave

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