Re: Timeout on connect?

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The amount of time it takes to complete the connect() function depends on
network performance and whether the connection attempt
succeeds.  Unfortunately, in blocking mode, you don't have any control of
how long the connect could take.

Here is a fairly novel result that came up in google (unfortunately in C):
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-components-list/1999-August/msg00038.html

Even though this code uses select coded in a 'forever' type loop, the
select will block for up to the timeout seconds, but will return if the
connection happens (before the timeout) by the socket becoming
writable.  Not a terrible CPU hog, and as responsive as possible.

Regards,
Rich

At 03:37 PM 3/4/02, you wrote:
>Folks:
>
>Does anyone know if it's possible to set a timeout on a TCP/IP connect?
>
>My research indicates that there is no easy way to do this ... I found
>http://www.developerweb.net/sock-faq/detail.php?id=36 which talks about
>setting the socket into non-blocking mode, which I really don't want to do
>at this point (it would change my applications structure more than I'm
>willing to deal with now).
>
>Thanks!
>
>david