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Re: long lasting client socket connection

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Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> writes:

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> The client application is multi-threaded; each thread makes a socket
> connection and keeps it open. Client threads continuously send
> requests to the server, and then wait for a pthread condition when the
> reply (terminated with \n) comes in, or it time times out.
>
> A problem occurred when a client actually timed-out and the data came
> in right after that, so then the next client that sent a request got
> the reply for the previous, and so on from that point on. (The client
> supplies the read buffer.)

As stated, this is not possible: If each client uses a connection of
its own, no client can ever receive a reply for another client.

Apart from that: If you think you need application level timeouts with
TCP then you need to destroy and recreate the connection after a
timeout occurred: Otherwise, you will either get all replies in the
order they were sent no matter if the client still wants them or not
or a transport layer connection abort after 'a long time'. TCP isn't
(and isn't designed to be) suitable for communication with realtime
requirements. Consider using UDP, possibly with a suitable
retransmission scheme.

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long lasting client socket connection Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-12 16:04 -0600
  Re: long lasting client socket connection Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-12 22:21 +0000
    Re: long lasting client socket connection Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-01-13 14:54 +0000
      Re: long lasting client socket connection Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-13 15:58 -0600
        Re: long lasting client socket connection Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-01-13 22:17 +0000
          Re: long lasting client socket connection Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> - 2012-01-14 14:43 -0600
        Re: long lasting client socket connection Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-13 22:38 +0000
          Re: long lasting client socket connection Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-01-14 00:49 +0000

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