[vlc-commits] [Git][videolan/vlc][master] cli: send EOF on control socket disconnect

[Felix Paul Kühne (@fkuehne)]

Felix Paul Kühne pushed to branch master at VideoLAN / VLC


Commits:
c1880917 by Sergio Ammirata at 2026-04-19T14:25:07+02:00
cli: send EOF on control socket disconnect

Since 4.0 now allows several simultaneous cli connections, this changeset allows notifying the client that the socket won't be used anymore even if the file descriptor isn't yet closed server-side.

This mimics VLC 3.x behavior.

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1 changed file:

- modules/control/cli/cli.c


Changes:

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modules/control/cli/cli.c
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@@ -477,6 +477,11 @@ static void *cli_client_thread(void *data)
         libvlc_Quit(vlc_object_instance(intf));
         vlc_restorecancel(canc);
     }
+    else
+    {
+        // Force EOF
+        shutdown(fileno(cl->stream), SHUT_WR);
+    }
 
     atomic_store_explicit(&cl->zombie, true, memory_order_release);
     return NULL;



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