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I would like to know if anybody knows what will happen to a socket descriptor if alarm is used as a timeout mechanism.
If, for example, we have the following scenario:
alarm(1);
call routine to post some data via a socket (via a httpapi routines)
alarm(0);
Assuming the alarm is fired due to the post taking more than a second to complete, what would happen to the socket descriptor? Does it get closed when interrupted or do we have a leak here?
We are getting some jobs with the dreaded "too many open files for process" error and I'm wondering if this code could be the culprit.
Would the open socket descriptors start piling up if interrupted in this way?
Any and all ideas are welcome.
Cheers
Larry Ducie
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