libevent buffered events and half-closed sockets

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Published on 2010-03-13T03:37:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 3:37 UTC
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It is simple to implement a port mapper using bufferevent_* functions of libevent.

However, the documentation states that "This file descriptor is not allowed to be a pipe(2)".

Will libevent work correctly if I shutdown the socket in one direction shutdown(socket, SHUT_WR);? I expect it to discard remaining data in the buffer and not write there anymore, but continue reading from socket and calling a read handler.

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