I have a Client Server model sending and receiving both custom messages and pulses, on the server side I am using 
name_attach and MsgReceive / MsgReceivePulse, on the client side I am using name_open and MsgSend / MsgSendPulse. 

I am attempting to determine if the server has terminated, I plan to use critail process monitoring to restart the 
server should it be terminated.

I would is possible rather not call name_open, MsgSendPulse, name_close every time I have message. 

On the client side I was hoping to do something like this:

name_open()

for(;;)
{ 

    ….
    ….
    ….
    ….

    status = MsgSendPulse_r()
    if(status !=EOK)
    {
         if(status == EBADF)
         {
              name_open()  
         }
    }
}

However MsgSendPulse_r always returns EOK, even when the server has been terminated and the entry in the namespace /dev/
name/local has been removed. 

Any ideas how I can achieve this.

Regards

William