Detecting remote NIO sockets closed

[Stanley Brown]

David Daney wrote:

>Stanley Brown wrote:
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>>Found another NIO sockets issue.  For some reason an OP_READ event is 
>>never issued when a non-blocking socket has concluded.  This is a 
>>problem because, from my understanding, the only way to know you've 
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>Reads are usless for detecting connections that have not terminated
>"normally".  Doing a write is the only reliable method for determining that
>a connection is still "open".
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I'm not looking for abnormal connection terminations.  For now I'm only 
concerned with getting non-blocking nio sockets to behave like Sun's 
implementation in that a closing socket adds a OP_READ event to the 
interested selector and further reads will result in -1 bytes being 
available.