[REBOL] Wait for port/time, can you tell which is which?
From: mat::eurogamer::net at: 15-Jun-2001 11:10
Hello folks,
This is a straightforward problem and I'm sure I'm missing something
obvious. However any help appreciated!
I've written this IRC bot in Rebol and it's absolutely marvellous if I
do say so myself. :) The only problem is that it can sometimes be
disconnected from the server and it doesn't know about it. The same
happens to regular IRC clients too. As soon as you try to send
something, then it's apparent you have no socket and the bot/IRC
client reconnects etc. No problem.
The issue is using wait <port>, this will quite happily wait forever
obviously. I understand you can wait for a port AND a time, which is
nice. However, how could you tell whether wait has returned because
the duration timed out or that there was data at the port?
If there was no data and the wait timed out because of the duration,
currently I wouldn't know. I'd executing some sort of read from the
port which would result in a null string. You'd take that to mean
that the port is closed, right?
Which is no good. Instead, if the wait has timed out because of the
TIME limit then I just want to send some data to the server (a simple
ping in this case) and go back to my wait. If the socket is dead, then
the wait would return having data (even if there is none) and the bot
would reconnect because it was appropriate.
So how can you tell or is this the wrong approach entirely? Phew.
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