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Socket question - remote close or empty message?

From MSDN dox:

WinSock select():
For connection-oriented sockets, readability can also indicate that a
request to close the socket has been received from the peer. If the
virtual circuit was closed gracefully, and all data was received, then a
recv will return immediately with zero bytes read.

..NET Socket.Select() :
Readability can also indicate whether the remote Socket has shut down
the connection; in that case a call to Receive will return immediately,
with zero bytes returned.

Now for the question:
It's possible to send an empty message (socket.Send(ne w byte[]{}).
How on earth would a receving socket distinguish between this and a
remote shutdown?

/Per
Jul 21 '05 #1
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