Re^2: Printing to all clients on a socket from a child process

Have you got any suggestions on where I place my keep alive in the parent? I explored this route but always got stuck as the Keep Alive would never end.

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Re^3: Printing to all clients on a socket from a child process by pc88mxer (Vicar) on Mar 11, 2008 at 21:32 UTC
I would just do it in your I/O processing loop. At the end of the loop, just check if it is time to send the keep-alive message. You can keep track of things on a per-client basis, or just use the same timing for all clients. In your `can_read` call, you'll want to use a timeout value that's equal to your keep-alive period so that you won't miss sending out a keep-alive message on time.	[reply] [d/l]