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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hey guys.
> 
> I'm writing a quick socket redirector for something. Its run out of inetd,
> and basically opens a socket somewhere and acts as a pipe between the two.
> I'm using select(), and its working fine. The only problem I'm having is
> that I don't know how to tell when the remote end closes the connection
> down, so that I can just close everything down, and quit.
> 
> Any ideas on how I'd do this?

Why not just use plug-gw from the fwtk? From your description it sounds
like just the thing you need.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Chadd			| "Unix doesn't stop you from doing
> <adrian@psinet.net.au>		|   stupid things because that would 
> 				|    stop you from doing clever things"
> 
> 
> 
Nadav