Server death detection?

[Pawel Gburzynski]

>From article <MCDANIEL.90Oct18111427 at dolphin.adi.com>, by mcdaniel at adi.com (Tim McDaniel):
> 
> select is no help at all: the death of the other end of the connection
> is not perceived as an exception.
> 
Actually it is. When a socket is closed, it appears as "ready to read" on
the other side (with EOF).

                                   Pawel Gburzynski.