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  3. March 2002

Re: Timeout on connect?

What's wrong with non-blocking sockets & calling select()?   It's the way
things were designed to work from the beginning.  It's simple.  It's
dramatically more powerful/flexible than setting SO_RCVTIMEO.

So... I don't understand all of the searching the web for things, and
looking for alternatives?

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
>
> Indicates that the SO_RCVTIMEO socket option can be set on some operating
> systems, and if set before connect, it will influence the maximum amount of
> time the connect request can take, as well as how long recv will wait.
>
> But the bummer is: I pulled out my trusty OS/400 Sockets Programming V3R7
> manual and it indicates that neither SO_RCVTIMEO, nor SO_SNDTIMEO socket
> options are supported.  I also checked the iSeries info center for V5R1,
> and both options are still listed as unsupported.
>
> So, it looks like you will still have to 'roll your own'.
>

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