Why socket infinite return -1 (errno:104)

My socket program is a server-client structure.

Something strange, there have a low probability that when the TCP socket just construct(client connect and server accept).

and I use select than read the socket, it will return -1 and errno is 104(Connection reset by peer).

But I do not send anything neither server nor client, in a normal way it should block at select function(my select function did not set time-out limit), but the read function return -1.

Why it happen? Or how can I do can get more detail to debug this problem?

Thank you all.

Platform: ubuntu 13.04 64bits, gcc compiler

minimal version of my code:

server:

for(;;) { rset= allset; select(maxfd+1, &rset, NULL, NULL, NULL); //read socket if( FD_ISSET(fconn[i].fd, &rset) ) { len=read(fconn[i].fd, &tcp_buf.b[4], PACKET_LENGTH); //the connection will close if( len<0 ) { printf("%s, fconn %s read length:%d, errno:%d(%s), close connection\n", crtTime(), fconn[i].ip, len, errno, strerror(errno) ); close( fconn[i].fd ); FD_CLR( fconn[i].fd, &allset ); } } //construct new connection if( FD_ISSET(forwardSockfd, &rset) ) { clilen= sizeof(cliaddr); connfd= accept( forwardSockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&cliaddr, &clilen ); inet_ntop( AF_INET, &cliaddr.sin_addr, ip, sizeof(ip) ); client_port= (int)cliaddr.sin_port; //set send buffer size int sendBuf= SOCKET_BUF_LENGTH; setsockopt(connfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, &sendBuf, sizeof(sendBuf)); FD_SET( connfd, &allset ); } } 

client (my read function):

int readline(int fd, void* ptr, int len) { int rtn= len; void* bp= ptr; int rc; fd_set fdset; FD_ZERO(&fdset); FD_SET(fd, &fdset); while( len>0 ) { select(fd+1, &fdset, NULL, NULL, NULL); rc=read(fd, bp, len); if(rc>0) { bp+= rc; len-= rc; } else { return rc; } } return rtn; } 
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it will return -1 and errno is 104(Connection reset by peer)

So the connection was reset by the peer. That can happen any time. It's out of your control. The correct action is to close the socket and forget about it. The connection no longer exists. Trying to select and read from it again is just misplaced optimism.

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