Thread: How to detect the server is disconnected....

Hey all,
I am writing a multithreaded server/client application. One server is handling multiple clients and server is executing separate thread for each client. Now my question is that is there any way for the client application to detect that the server has been shut down? i.e during communication (sending and receiving data) if the server application is suddenly shut down/terminated, then how can the client application(s) detect this event and perform action accordingly?

Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated....

Regards
Waqas Arshad

If worse comes to worse, you could always create another thread which select()ed on a PF_PACKET socket and then used pthread_cond_broadcast if a FIN/RST was captured.