[vlc-devel] mjpeg demux and infinite wait.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 18:34:59 Sébastien Escudier, vous avez écrit :
> In my case there is no "clean" socket shutdown. I can reproduce by
> unpluging my network cable. I expected vlc to close that stream after a
> while, but even after 10 minutes nothing happened.

That's not a (VLC) bug, that's a feature of your TCP stack. On Windows, 
unplugging the cable will immediately trigger an ENETDOWN error; on Linux, 
nothing happens. If you're not happy turn TCP keep-alives on system-wide and 
set lower timeouts value via /proc.

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